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{{short description|Short story by Jorge Luis Borges}}
{{About|the short story|the short story collection in which it was published |The Book of Sand (bookshort story collection)}}
{{Infobox short story | <!-- See [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels]] or [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Books]] -->
| name = The Book of Sand
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| genre = [[Fantasy]], [[short story]]
| published_in = [[The Book of Sand (bookshort story collection)|''The Book of Sand'']]
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| media_type = Print
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==Release==
The story was first published in 1975, in Spanish, as the last of 13 stories in a [[The Book of Sand (bookshort story collection)|book of the same name]]. The first English translation—by [[Norman Thomas di Giovanni]]—was published in ''[[The New Yorker]]''. The entire volume ''The Book of Sand'' ({{ISBN|0-525-47540-0}}) first appeared in English in [[1977 in literature|1977]].
 
==Plot summary==
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==Adaptations==
The story (retitled ''The Sandbook'') was turned into an [[experimental dance]] piece by [[Esther Linley]]'s dance company for the 1994 [[Donaufestival]] in [[Austria]]. The soundtrack to the piece was written by [[Germany|German]] musician [[Hans-Joachim Roedelius]]. Roedelius also featured as an actor in the piece.<ref>''Painting with Sound: The Life and Music of Hans-Joachim Roedelius'' ({{ISBN|0-9545995-0-0}}</ref>
 
The story was adapted by the [[Saudi people|Saudi]] filmmaker Bader Al-Homoud in his online film<ref>{{cite av mediaYouTube|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGD9jJ1QeGY|title=فيلم كتاب الرمال Book of sandSand short film - YouTube|date=28 November 2013|publisher=|via=YouTube}}</ref> and was selected as an Officialofficial Honoreehonoree in the 18th Annual [[Webby Award]]s in 2014.<ref>http://pv.webbyawards.com/2014/online-film-video/general-film-categories/drama-individual-short-or-episode/honorees</ref>
The NYU sketch comedy group ''Free Beer'' featured a comedic video adaptation of the story in their June 2020 show.
 
The [[Netherlands|Dutch]] composer [[Michel van der Aa]] created for the 2015 [[Holland Festival]] a digital interactive [[song cycle]] based on this story, with [[Kate Miller-Heidke]] as performer.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hollandfestival.nl/en/program/2015/the-book-of-sand/|title=Holland Festival|author=INTERNATIONAALInternationaal PODIUMKUNSTENFESTIVALPodiumkunstenfestival|publisher=}}</ref>
The story (retitled ''The Sandbook'') was turned into an [[experimental dance]] piece by [[Esther Linley]]'s dance company for the 1994 [[Donaufestival]] in [[Austria]]. The soundtrack to the piece was written by [[Germany|German]] musician [[Hans-Joachim Roedelius]]. Roedelius also featured as an actor in the piece.<ref>''Painting with Sound: The Life and Music of Hans-Joachim Roedelius'' ({{ISBN|0-9545995-0-0}}</ref>
 
The story was adapted by the [[Saudi people|Saudi]] filmmaker Bader Al-Homoud in his online film<ref>{{cite av media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGD9jJ1QeGY|title=فيلم كتاب الرمال Book of sand short film - YouTube|date=28 November 2013|publisher=|via=YouTube}}</ref> and was selected as an Official Honoree in the 18th Annual [[Webby Award]]s in 2014.<ref>http://pv.webbyawards.com/2014/online-film-video/general-film-categories/drama-individual-short-or-episode/honorees</ref>
 
The [[Netherlands|Dutch]] composer [[Michel van der Aa]] created for the 2015 [[Holland Festival]] a digital interactive [[song cycle]] based on this story, with [[Kate Miller-Heidke]] as performer.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hollandfestival.nl/en/program/2015/the-book-of-sand/|title=Holland Festival|author=INTERNATIONAAL PODIUMKUNSTENFESTIVAL|publisher=}}</ref>
 
==References==