The Aleph and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) by Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley Aurora Ascher With the odds stacked against

With the odds stacked against her

but Birdie believes she has come prepared

their golden years are looking as dreary as their marriages

they’re sure as hell not leaving without something

The Aleph and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) by Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley Aurora Ascher With the odds stacked againstFull of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borgess most fully realized human characters. With uncanny insight he takes us inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Mayan priest, fanatical Christian theologians, a woman plotting vengeance on her fathers killer, and a man awaiting his assassin in a Buenos Aires guest house. This volume also contains the hauntingly brief vignettes about literary