The acclaimed author of García Márquez delivers “a compulsively readable account of the life and works of our greatest . . . writer of fantasy” (New York

For the first time in English, all the fiction by the writer who has been called “the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century” collected in a single

Forty short stories and essays have been selected as representative of the Argentine writer's metaphysical narratives.

In this evocative work of what the author in his afterword calls “a kindof novelistic memoir,” Jay Parini takes us back fifty years, when he fled the United

Thirteen new stories by the celebrated writer, including two which he considers his greatest achievements to date, artfully blend elements from many literary ge