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Das Vermächtnis und geniale Abschiedsgeschenk eines großen Schriftstellers William Trevors Erzählungen beleuchten die Abgründe menschlichen Daseins und werfen Licht auf Momente von existentieller Bedeutung. Da ist etwa das Mädchen, dessen tot geglaubte Mutter sich als höchst lebendig und kerngesund herausstellt. Oder die Klavierlehrerin, die die Diebstähle ihres Schülers stillschweigend hinnimmt, weil er so wunderbar spielt. Und der italienische Cafébesitzer in London, der sein Café nach der Frau benennt, die ihn verlassen hat. Einfühlsam, tiefgründig und mit stilistischer Raffinesse erzählt Trevor von den Leben ganz gewöhnlicher Menschen in einer Welt, in der das Glück vorübergehend und nur unter Vorbehalt zu genießen ist, in der die Vergangenheit die Gegenwart bestimmt und zufällige Begegnungen die Einsamkeit für einen Moment vertreiben können.

Beryl Tuke, whiling time away in the Thistle Arms with gin and cheap romances, and Alban Roche at Bassett's Petstore are among the street's dream-ridden survivors. A new arrival, Miss Gomez, on the run from her tragic childhood in Jamaica, now lives for her postal correspondence with the Church of the Brethren of the Way back on the island.

What was the tragedy that turned O'Neill's hotel from plush establishment into a dingy house of disrepute? Ivy Eckdorf is determined to find out. A professional photographer, she has come to Dublin convinced that a tragic and beautiful tale lies behind the facade of this crumbling hotel. The aging proprietor lies dying upstairs while her feckless son is lost in a world of drink and horseracing; and the loyal O'Shea, accompanied everywhere by his greyhound, seeks to keep the hotel on the road. As Mrs Eckdorf worms her way into lives that centre on the hotel, she becomes as much a victim as they are.

The Silence in the Garden by William Trevor - a classic early novel by one of the world's greatest writers Family secrets take their toll on the children of an old Irish family In the summer of 1904 Sarah Pollenfax, the daughter of an impecunious clergyman, arrives at Carriglas, an island off the coast of Cork, to act as governess for her distant cousins. It's a magical time in a magical place. But when she comes back almost thirty years later, after the First World War and the Irish Civil War have taken their toll, she discovers that there were things going on during that apparently idyllic summer which now horrify her and which cast a long shadow over the remnants of the family still living there. 'William Trevor's precisions and indirections slowly and balefully accumulate in this, his most ambitious novel' Anthony Thwaite, London Review of Books 'Offers marvels with Mr Trevor's customary understated dexterity' New York Times William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, Co Cork, in 1928. He spent his childhood in Ireland and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, but has lived in England for many years. An acknowledged master of the short-story form, he has also written many highly acclaimed novels: he has won the Whitbread Fiction Prize three times and been shortlisted for the Booker Prize four times. His most recent novel was Love and Summer (Penguin, 2010).

After nineteen years of marriage, three children and a brief but passionate affair followed by a quick divorce, Elizabeth Aidallbery has to go to hospital for an emergency operation. From her hospital bed she has the leisure to take stock of her life, and frankly it doesn't look very edifying: there's the 17 year old daughter who's run off to a commune with her boyfriend; an old hopeless suitor who continues to press his claims; and of course the memory of the havoc she caused by the affair. No doubt she could put her life back in order. But need that involve all those people who cause her so much heartache?

What chance has a nice middle-class woman got against a determined conman? 47-year-old widow Julia is about to remarry, much to the delight and relief of her daughters. But her mother has suspicions about Francis which she keeps to herself. Perhaps wrongly: if she'd shared her feelings with her daughter the disaster might have been avoided. Meanwhile there are two other women who have a claim on the would-be bridegroom - and the way things are shaping up it might be one of them, rather than Julia, who comes off worst out of the situation.

Nights at the Alexandra by William Trevor - a classic early novel by one of the world's greatest writers A brief encounter in wartime Ireland - the memory of which lasts a lifetime In a small town in Ireland middle-aged Harry looks back on his wartime adolescence when he fetched and carried for the beautiful young Englishwoman who had taken over the big stone house with her much older German husband. But Frau Messinger's health is failing, and her husband decides to build a cinema in the town to honour her. Harry will work in it; one day he will own it; and he will always remain captive to the memory of the beguiling young woman who arrived suddenly from abroad and lit up his drab provincial life. William Trevor's gift of understanding the poignancy in apparently small lives is beautifully realized in this short novel. 'Perfect in its making and its length' The Times 'Certainly lingers in the mind. I am prepared to bet that I will still remember it in a year's time, which is a test of genuine excellence' Harriet Waugh, Spectator William Trevor was born in Ireland in 1928 and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He is regarded as one of the greatest short story writers in English, and has also written many award-winning novels, most recently The Story of Lucy Gault and Love and Summer. For many years he has lived in Devon.

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.“ Was Wiliam Trevor hier leidenschaftlich einfordert, stellt er in seinen meisterhaften Erzählungen unter Beweis, deren Herzstück stets die Wahrhaftigkeit ist. So zum Beispiel in der bislang nie auf Deutsch erschienenen Geschichte vom blinden Klavierstimmer, dessen zweite Ehefrau sein Handicap schamlos ausnutzt. Oder der von dem Mädchen, das vom Tod seiner Mutter überzeugt ist, bis auf dem Schulhof zwei geheimnisvolle Frauen auftauchen. Und immer wieder hält uns der „melancholische Altmeister der irischen Literatur“ vor Augen, dass wir dem Schicksal unerbittlich ausgeliefert sind.

The Boarding House by William Trevor - a darkly comic novel by one of the world's best writers 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 built a unique place with a unique atmosphere. But then he realizes he's dying, and he decides to leave the place to the two tenants likely to cause the greatest amount of trouble, and the whole enterprise goes up in smoke

Jaraby expects to get the job, but he reckons without the bitterness of Nox, who still remembers the humiliations of his school years. And when Jaraby's son gets into trouble with the law, Nox has the perfect stick with which to beat him.