Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges's 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 father's "killer," and
a man awaiting his assassin in a Buenos Aires guest house. This volume also contains the hauntingly brief vignettes
about literary imagination and personal identity collected in The Maker, which Borges wrote as failing eyesight
and public fame began to undermine his sense of self.