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The Aleph and Other Stories
Translated with an Introduction and Notes
by Andrew Hurley
Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural
surprises, The Aleph contains
some of Borges’s most fully realized
human characters—an unrepentant Nazi,
fanatical Christian theologians, a man
awaiting his assassin in a Buenos Aires
guesthouse. The brief vignettes collected
in The Maker reveal the subtle epiphanies
of a literary master in his prime.
304 pp. 978-0-14-243788-9 $15.00
The Book of Imaginary Beings
Illustrated by Peter Sís
Translated by Andrew Hurley
Blending specifically commissioned
illustrations by Peter Sís with Borges’s
1957 compilation of “strange creatures
conceived through time and space by the
human imagination,” this unique volume
is a lavish feast of exotica brought vividly
to life.
256 pp. 978-0-14-303993-8 $16.00
Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
The Book of Sand and Shakespeare’s
Memory
Translated with an Introduction and Notes
by Andrew Hurley
Jorge Luis Borges has been called the
greatest Spanish-language writer of the
twentieth century. Now his remarkable
last major story collection, The Book of
Sand, is paired with a handful of writings
from the very end of his life, both
brilliantly translated to showcase his depth
of vision and superb image-conjuring
power.
176 pp. 978-0-14-310529-9 $15.00
Brodie’s Report
Translated with an Introduction and Notes
by Andrew Hurley
After a gap of twenty years, Jorge Luis
Borges returned to writing short stories
and, in Brodie’s Report, he returned also
to the style of his earlier years with its
brutal realism. Many other themes—fate
and freewill, friendship and loyalty, time
and memory—are threaded through these
compelling stories, which are among the
finest Borges ever wrote.
144 pp. 978-0-14-303925-9 $13.00
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