Borges and Me by Jay Parini quiz said Charles Foster in the

said Charles Foster in the London Evening Standard

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Borges and Me by Jay Parini quiz said Charles Foster in theIn this evocative work of what the author in his Afterword calls 'autofiction' or 'a kind of novelised memoir', Jay Parini takes us back fifty years, when he fled the United States for Scotland. He was in frantic flight from the Vietnam War and desperately in search of his adult life. There, through unlikely circumstances, he met famed Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges. Borges was in his seventies, blind and frail. Parini was asked to look after