Silvina Ocampo - A Promessa

On a ship, a woman falls overboard. Adrift, she sees her whole life pass before her eyes and promises Saint Rita, patron saint of impossible causes, to write her story if she survives.

People, places and memories flood into her memory, like debris on the surface of the water, in an unfathomable and threatening ocean, forming a powerful dictionary of memories. Published posthumously in 2011, A Promessa has undergone constant rewrites since the 1960s and was the work of the last days of the author, already tormented by illness.