Description
A woman slips from a transatlantic liner and, unnoticed, finds herself fighting for breath as she clings to a single task: to keep recounting her life until she can be rescued. Narrated in the midst of drowning, her story unfolds like a promised manuscript—part autobiography, part haunting inventory—where memory becomes both lifeline and unreliable witness. Blending lyrical invention with psychological intensity, the novel explores love, loss, identity, and the ways culture and desire shape what can be remembered, confessed, or erased. In the tradition of Silvina Ocampo’s dreamlike, sharply observant style, the book turns the act of storytelling into a meditation on time, regret, and the fragile boundary between truth and imagination.
Available Editions
paperback
City Lights Publishers
Published Nov 5, 2019
120 pages
ISBN: 9780872867710
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Details
First Published
2019
Language
eng
Translation
From: spa
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Promise by Silvina Ocampo.