Thus Were Their Faces: Selected Stories

Description

Thus Were Their Faces collects a wide range of Silvina Ocampo's best short fiction and novella-length stories. Stories about creepy doubles, a marble statue of a winged horse that speaks to a girl, a house of sugar that is the site of an eerie possession, children who lock their perverse mothers in a room and burn it, a lapdog who records the dreams of an old woman. Jorge Luis Borges wrote that the cruelty of Ocampo's stories was the result of her nobility of soul, a judgment as paradoxical as much of her own writing. Dark, gothic, fantastic, and grotesque, these haunting stories are among the world's finest.