Borges who never wrote a novel shows why doing so was irrelevant with this mind bending collection of short “fictions.’ His works exhibit more vitality in 7 pages than many authors do in 300 with topics ranging from the ethics of espionage to mirrors and labyrinths and knife fights in the countryside of southern Argentina. This is literary athleticism at its finest. For a brief but mesmerizing read try either “Funes, the Memorious” of “The Garden of Forking Paths.”
Recommended by Zak
Elizabeth George discusses and signs Careless in Red
05/28/2008 7:00 pm
Location:
Street:
Vroman's Bookstore
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695 E. Colorado Blvd
City:
Pasadena
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Province:
California
Postal Code:
91101
Country:
United States
After the senseless murder of his pregnant wife, Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley hands in his badge, walks out of Scotland Yard and goes home to Cornwall. While on a hike of the trails over the cliffs of the Cornish coast, Lynley finds a lifeless body of a young man, dead from a fall. Lynley begins a quest to unmask a clever and ruthless murderer but this time he is not in charge. In fact, he's a witness and possibly a suspect.