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A point that contains every other point, in a Buenos Aires cellar; Borges' second collection.

A universe of hexagonal galleries holding every possible 410-page book, nearly all of them gibberish.

A novel you can read in two orders; Cortazar's Paris and Buenos Aires.

Bruno Schulz's Drohobycz turned into myth; the stories a Gestapo officer's bullet ended.

An officer demonstrates the machine that writes a condemned man's sentence into his back over twelve hours.

A successful judge falls ill and works out, over three months of dying, that he lived the whole thing wrong.

A city whose happiness depends on one child kept in a cellar, and the few citizens who leave rather than accept the terms.

A Buenos Aires teacher begins to suspect her adopted daughter was taken from a "disappeared" mother.