Evening Games: tales of parents and children

by Alberto Manguel (Editor)

Gathers stories by Gail Godwin, Rudyard Kipling, James Purdy, Max Apple, Isak Dinesen, Luigi Pirandello, and Ernest Hemingway

368 pages, Paperback

First published March 26, 1987

About the author

Alberto Manguel (born 1948 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine-born writer, translator, and editor. He is the author of numerous non-fiction books such as The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (co-written with Gianni Guadalupi in 1980) and A History of Reading (1996) The Library at Night (2007) and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: A Biography (2008), and novels such as News From a Foreign Country Came (1991).

Manguel believes in the central importance of the book in societies of the written word where, in recent times, the intellectual act has lost most of its prestige. Libraries (the reservoirs of collective memory) should be our essential symbol, not banks. Humans can be defined as reading animals, come into the world to decipher it and themselves.