Borges and the Eternal Orangutans (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780811215923)

Jorge Luis Borges is the hero of this literary whodunit by one of Brazil's most celebrated writers. Vogelstein is a loner who has always lived among books. Suddenly, fate grabs hold of his insignificant life and carries him off to Buenos Aires, to a conference on Edgar Allan Poe, the inventor of the modern detective story. There Vogelstein meets his idol, Jorge Luis Borges, and for reasons that a mere passion for literature cannot explain, he finds himself at the center of a murder investigation that involves arcane demons, the mysteries of the Kaballah, the possible destruction of the world, and the Elizabethan magus John Dee's theory of the "Eternal Orangutan," which, given all the time in the world, would end up writing all the known books in the cosmos. Verissimo's small masterpiece is at once a literary tour de force and a brilliant mystery novel.

Author: Margaret Jull Costa, Luis Fernando Verissimo
ISBN-10: 081121592X
ISBN-13: 9780811215923
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 05/17/2005
Pages: 135
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.39d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/11/2005 pg. 32
Multicultural Review 09/01/2005 pg. 70
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2005 pg. 316
Kirkus Best Books 12/15/2005 pg. 17