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. Borges and Me is a classic road novel, based on true events. Borges and Me An Encounter An Encounter An Encounter By Jay Parini By Jay Parini By Jay Parini By Jay Parini By Jay Parini Read by Fred Sanders. As Borges's world of labyrinths, mirrors and doubles shimmered into being, their escapades took a surreal turn.

As they travelled, the charmingly garrulous Borges took Parini on a grand tour of western literature and ideas while promising to teach him about love and poetry. When Borges heard that Parini owned a 1957 Morris Minor, he declared a long-held wish to visit the Scottish Highlands, where he hoped to meet a man in Inverness who was interested in Anglo-Saxon riddles. Parini was asked to look after him while his translator was unexpectedly called away. Borges was in his seventies, blind and frail. In this evocative work of what the author in his afterword calls a kindof novelistic memoir, Jay Parini takes us back fifty years, when he fled the United States for Scotlandin flight from the Vietnam War and desperately in search of his adult life. There, through unlikely circumstances, he met famed Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges.

He was in frantic flight from the Vietnam War and desperately in search of his adult life. LONGLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZEIn this evocative work of what the author in his Afterword calls 'autofiction' or 'a kind of novelised memoir', Jay Parini takes us back fifty years, when he fled the United States for Scotland.

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