{"product_id":"9781590177990","title":"Thus Were Their Faces: Selected Stories","description":"An NYRB Classics Original\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThus Were Their Faces\u003c\/i\u003e 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 much else that is  incredible, mad, sublime, and delicious. Italo Calvino has written that  no other writer “better captures the magic inside everyday rituals, the  forbidden or hidden face that our mirrors don’t show us.” Jorge Luis  Borges flatly declared, “Silvina Ocampo is one of our best writers. Her  stories have no equal in our literature.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDark, gothic, fantastic, and grotesque, these haunting stories are among the world’s most individual and finest.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47180005671152,"sku":"9781590177990","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590177990_p0.jpg?v=1763810068","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590177990","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}