Description: Borges reveals his delight in sharing colorful stories from the Orient, the Islamic world, and the Wild West, as well as his horrified fascination with knife fights, political and personal betrayal, and bloodthirsty revenge.
Review Quotes: "Hurley's efforts at retranslating Borges are not anything but heroic. His versions are clear, elegant, crystalline." --Ilan Stavans, The Times Literary Supplement
"[Borges's] stories often take the outer form of some genre from popular literature, a form proved by long usage, which creates almost mythical structures." --Italo Calvino