Manguel'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.

'This delightful book provides readers a key to more than one secret room of Borges's magical worlds.'-Mahmoud Darwish

'Alberto Manguel is to reading what Casanova was to sex.'-Scotland on Sunday

'His stories about Borges . . . [are] wrapped in luminous poetry.'-The Toronto Star

Alberto 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.