{"product_id":"borges-and-the-eternal-orangutans-9780811215923","title":"Borges and the Eternal Orangutans","description":"\u003cb\u003eJorge Luis Borges is the hero of this literary whodunit by one of Brazil's most celebrated writers.\u003c\/b\u003e Vogelstein is a loner who has always lived among books. Suddenly, fate grabs hold of his insignificant life and carries him off to Buenos Aires, to a conference on Edgar Allan Poe, the inventor of the modern detective story. There Vogelstein meets his idol, Jorge Luis Borges, and for reasons that a mere passion for literature cannot explain, he finds himself at the center of a murder investigation that involves arcane demons, the mysteries of the Kaballah, the possible destruction of the world, and the Elizabethan magus John Dee's theory of the \"Eternal Orangutan,\" which, given all the time in the world, would end up writing all the known books in the cosmos. Verissimo's small masterpiece is at once a literary tour de force and a brilliant mystery novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/17\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811215923\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 135\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.39d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/11\/2005 pg. 32\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMulticultural Review\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2005 pg. 70\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/15\/2005 pg. 316\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Best Books\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/15\/2005 pg. 17\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Margaret Jull Costa, Luis Fernando Verissimo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44902086049973,"sku":"9780811215923","price":12.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_3f7d0266-2432-4e39-91b0-65ffb8b389fc.jpg?v=1733813098","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/borges-and-the-eternal-orangutans-9780811215923","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}