A collection of short stories from celebrated author William Trevor in which he shines a light on the day-to-day life of Ireland and its citizens. From his debut collection, "The Day We Got Drunk on Cake," published in 1968, to "Family...

William Bird has always taken in boarders who are on the fringes of society: the petty conman, the immigrant who's never been able to fit in, the blustering officer who really doesn't know what's what , and the just plain lonely. He's...

William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland, in 1928. He is the author of fourteen much-lauded novels: he won the Whitbread Prize three times and was short-listed for the Booker Prize four times. Trevor was widely...

Neuübersetzung jetzt auch als Taschenbuch Eine irische Kleinstadt, Mitte der fünfziger Jahre: Mary Louise Dallon hat die Hoffnung auf Heirat fast aufgegeben, als sie von dem vierzehn Jahre älteren Elmer Quarry einen Antrag erhält. Doch...

Die schönsten Erzählungen vom unvergleichlichen "Bildhauer der Worte": "Sieht man den Roman als verwirrendes Renaissancegemälde, so ist die Kurzgeschichte wie ein impressionistisches Tableau: eine Explosion der Wahrheit sollte sie sein."...

'A master of both language and storytelling' HILARY MANTEL'Compact and ordinary, it was a town in a hollow that had grown up there for no reason that anyone knew or wondered about . . .'Rathmoye, Ireland, in the middle of the last...