Blow-Up

A young girl spends her summer vacation in a country house where a tiger roams . . . A man reading a mystery finds out too late that he is the murderer's intended victim . . . <p/>Originally published in hardcover as <i>End of the Game and Other Stories </i>the fifteen stories collected here--including Blow-Up which was the basis for Michelangelo Antonioni's film of the same name--shows Julio Cortázar's nimble capacity to explore the shadowy realm where the everyday meets the mysterious perhaps even the terrible.