On the arrival of a mysterious stranger laden with paintings, Leandro finds his quiet life disrupted instantly & mysteriously. He awakens locked in a windowless room in a topless tower, the subject of one of the stranger`s eerie paintings. His childish voice draws the reader into a mythical world full of imaginary beings. Basking in her friendship with literary luminaries such as Italo Calvino & Borges, Argentine poet & author Silvina Ocampo is among the foremost figures in modern South American literature. Heavily influenced by nonsense literature such as Lewis Carroll`s Alice in Wonderland & the surrealist movement in South America, The Topless Tower, features all the typical hallmarks of Ocampo`s fantastical writing. With subtle inflections of language & tremendous displays of imagination running riot, Ocampo`s writing is beautifully translated by James Womack.