The Aleph (Penguin Modern Classics) [2000] paperback Condition:New Pictures at an Exhibition

Pictures at an Exhibition

perfect' Santa Montefiore

To this end

His unflinching description of the harsh cruelty of the Chinese invaders of Tibet forces us to confront the reality of senseless

when she won a short-story writing competition in the Observer

The Aleph (Penguin Modern Classics) [2000] paperback Condition:New Pictures at an ExhibitionBorges' stories have a deceptively simple, almost laconic style. In maddeningly ingenious stories that play with the very form of the short story, Borges returns again and again to his themes: dreams, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, the manipulations of chance, gaucho knife fighters, transparent tigers and the elusive nature of identity itself.