This is a gem of a collection of Olga Orozco stories, beautifully
rendered into English. This wise selection of stories reveals Orozco's
lyrical, as well as mysterious, prose. The translators provide an
excellent introduction to Orozco's haunting and illuminating saga of
childhood on the Argentine pampa.-- Marjorie Agosin, Wellesley College
This collection introduces readers to the hallucinatory yet lucid world
that Olga Orozco's young narrator, Lía, inhabits and animates with her
prodigious imagination and the reality of small-town life on the
Argentine plains in the 1920s.
Olga Orozco (1920-1999) is considered to be one of the major
Argentine writers of the twentieth century.