{"product_id":"9781846590054","title":"With Borges","description":"\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\u003cp\u003e“Alberto Manguel is to reading what Casanova was to sex.”—\u003ci\u003eScotland on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“His stories about Borges . . . [are] wrapped in luminous poetry.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Toronto Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2003 Prix du livre en Poitou-Charentes.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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\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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Telegram Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47052364382448,"sku":"9781846590054","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781846590054_p0.jpg?v=1763779907","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781846590054","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}