The Promise by Silvina Ocampo

The Promise

Silvina Ocampo with Suzanne Jill Levine (Translator), Jessica Powell (Translator)

120 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

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A woman traveling on a transatlantic ship has fallen overboard. Adrift at sea, she makes a promise to Saint Rita, "arbiter of the impossible," that if she survives, she will write her life story. As she drifts, she wonders what she might include i...

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