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Thus Were Their Faces

Thus Were Their Faces

Author: Silvina Ocampo

Silvina Ocampo was the wife of Adolfo Bioy Casares and friend of Jorge Luis Borges, so it is easy to anticipate what sort of fiction she wrote. But as this retrospective collection taken from her entire career shows, she brought a very distinctive and individual style to the weird and wonderful stories she told. Many of them seem to be straight forwardly realist, until you come upon a subtle distortion that changes everything. We meet young girls who want to be dolls, or girls who foresee the future, hauntings and sudden acts of cruelty, and one story narrated by someone who turns out not to exist.Why it's on the listThe stories of Silvina Ocampo are highly rated in her native Argentina, but little known in the English speaking world, which is why translations can be so important.

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