Borges and Me

<p><b>LONGLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE</b><br><br>In frantic flight from the Vietnam War Jay Parini leaves the United States for Scotland. There through unlikely circumstances he meets famed Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges. The pair embark on a trip to the Scottish Highlands and on the way the charmingly garrulous Borges takes Parini on a grand tour of western literature and ideas while promising to teach him about love and poetry.<br><br><i>Borges and Me</i> is a classic road novel based on true events. It's also a magical tour of an era - like our own - in which uncertainties abound and when - as ever - it's the young and the old who hear voices and dream dreams.</p>