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In frantic flight from the Vietnam War, Jay Parini leaves the United States for Scotland. There, through unlikely circumstances, he meets famed Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges. The pair embark on a trip to the Scottish Highlands, and on the way the charmingly garrulous Borges takes Parini on a grand tour of western literature and ideas while promising to teach him about love and poetry.
Borges and Me is a classic road novel, based on true events. It's also a magical tour of an era - like our own - in which uncertainties abound, and when - as ever - it's the young and the old who hear voices and dream dreams.
- ISBN10 1838850244
- ISBN13 9781838850241
- Publish Date 5 August 2021
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Canongate Books
- Edition Main
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 320
- Language English