The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory: Jorge Borges

One of the most remarkable artists of our age.` Mario Vargas Llosa The Book of Sand was the last of Borges` major collections to be published. The stories are, in his words, `variations on favourite themes... combining a plain and at times almost colloquial style with a fantastic plot`. It includes such marvellous tales as `The Congress`, `Undr` and `The Mirror and the Mask`. Also included are the handful of stories written right at the end of Borges` life - `August 25, 1983`, `Blue Tigers`, `The Rose of Paracelsus` and `Shakespeare`s Memory.