The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory (Penguin Modern Classics) [2001] paperback ZMUSI Maybe it's the new boy

Maybe it's the new boy at school who makes her brain explode into rainbows every time she sees him (and also happens to be going out with her best friend)

when she is asked to run messages for the King family

the language he hopes to preserve

It also questions the legacies of these early tourists: both as a critical cultural practice in the 18th century

With her trademark candour and wit

The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory (Penguin Modern Classics) [2001] paperback ZMUSI Maybe it's the new boyOne of the most remarkable artists of our age.' MARIO VARGAS LLOSA THE BOOK OF SAND was the last of Borges' major collections to be published. The stories are, in his words, 'variations on favourite themes combining a plain and at times almost colloquial style with a fantastic plot'. It includes such marvellous tales as 'The Congress', 'Undr' and 'The Mirror and the Mask'. Also included are the handful of stories written right at the end of Borges'