The Book of Imaginary Beings
Jorge Luis Borges, Author, Peter Sis, Illustrator, Andrew Hurley, Translator with Margarita Guerrero, trans. from the Spanish by Andrew Hurley, illus. by Pe Penguin $25.95 (236p) ISBN 978-0-670-89180-1
The master, writing with sometime collaborator Guerrero, compiled 82 one- and two-page descriptions of everything from "The Borametz" (a Chinese "plant shaped like a lamb, covered with golden fleece") to "The Simurgh" ("an immortal bird that makes its nest in the tree of science") and "The Zaratan" (a particularly cunning whale) in
Reviewed on: 09/26/2005
Release date: 11/01/2005
Genre: Fiction
Paperback - 171 pages - 9780099442639
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