
Mohsin Hamid Reads Jorge Luis Borges
The New Yorker: Fiction
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The Impossible Book of Sand
Argentine writer says he was offered a large sum for the Wycliffe Bible. He decided to swap it with his pension check, which he had just collected. The book is said to be two thousand pages apart and engraved with a mask. Writer: "I felt that the book was a nightmarish object"
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