Brodie's Report History_Gift_Guide Combining expert perspectives

Combining expert perspectives

The history of this city--known as Byzantium

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In The Illuminated Rumi

A new collection of stories set in the West from "one of the most gifted and versatile of contemporary writers" (NPR)

Brodie's Report History_Gift_Guide Combining expert perspectivesAt the age of seventy, after a gap of twenty years, Jorge Luis Borges returned to writing short stories. In Brodie's Report, he returned also to the style of his earlier years with its brutal realism, nightmares, and bloodshed. Many of these stories, including Unworthy and The Other Duel, are set in the macho Argentinean underworld, and even the rivalries between artists are suffused with suppressed violence. Throughout, opposing themes of fate and