See conditions and procedure on our Refunds page.'For readers who already admire Borges, this memoir will be a delicious treat.If there are any problems with your order please email us. See our Shipping FAQs for further details on shipping methods, costs and delivery times.Instore Pickup available - please note this can sometimes take a week or two.We aim to ship your order within 1 business day.We charge a flat $10 per order shipping rate to most states ($20 per order to WA and NT).Please get in touch if you'd like more information about a particular book. There may be an inscription at the front. These are books which may have some slight wear and tear or sun fading on the edges. We sell some Secondhand Books - if a book is secondhand, this is clearly noted in the product Description.If you are purchasing a book as a gift, ask us and we can give you more information. Some books may be Remainder Marked (this is a small texta mark on the base of the book).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.
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 blind, in his seventies and frail.
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. But by the end, I was damp around the eyes I was sad to let this little cast of characters go.I read it in a greedy gulp.' - Ian McEwan In 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. My laughter (at poor Parini's long night in bed with his subject) kept my wife awake. He uses all a novelist's art, all his smoke and mirrors, to let the great man step shambolically from these pages to trap and beguile us, like a modern Ancient Mariner, with his brilliant, freely associative and heady metaphysics and literary table talk. Jay Parini's portrait of both Borges and Scotland is exquisite, deeply affectionate, sometimes comically irritable. Very funny, clever, moving, luminous with love of literature and landscape.
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