{"product_id":"with-borges","title":"With Borges","description":"\u003cp\u003eMemoirs by Alberto Manguel, and a winner of the 2003 Prix du livre en Poitou-Charentes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1964, in Buenos Aires, a blind writer in his sixties approached a sixteen-year-old bookstore clerk and asked if he would be interested in a part-time job reading aloud. The writer was Jorge Luis Borges, one of the world's finest literary minds; the boy was Alberto Manguel, who was later to become an internationally acclaimed author and bibliophile.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eManguel's reflections are part memoir, part biography, and all celebration of the living quality of literature. A moving portrait of an enigmatic genius, replete with deep insight into Borges and the writers he most admired.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'This delightful book provides readers a key to more than one secret room of Borges's magical worlds.'-Mahmoud Darwish\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Alberto Manguel is to reading what Casanova was to sex.'-Scotland on Sunday\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'His stories about Borges . . . [are] wrapped in luminous poetry.'-The Toronto Star\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlberto Manguel is internationally acclaimed as an anthologist, translator, essayist, novelist and editor, and is the author of several award-winning books including A Dictionary of Imaginary Places and A History of Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Telegram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67715319333184,"sku":"5855","price":8.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1003\/6664\/7616\/files\/with-borges-121.jpg?v=1791330101","url":"https:\/\/jarirbooksusa.com\/products\/with-borges","provider":"Jarir Books USA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}