Thus Were Their Faces: Selected Stories

by Helen Oyeyemi and Silvina Ocampo

Book Overview

An NYRB Classics Original Thus Were Their Faces offers a comprehensive selection of the short fiction of Silvina Ocampo, undoubtedly one of the twentieth century's great masters of the story and the novella. Here are tales of doubles and impostors, angels and demons, a marble statue of a winged horse that speaks, a beautiful seer who writes the autobiography of her own death, a lapdog who records the dreams of an old woman, a suicidal romance, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590177673
• ISBN13: 9781590177679
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 8.0"