Irlanda 1921: in un paese alla vigilia dell’indipendenza e turbato dalle manifestazioni antibritanniche, il capitano Everard Gault, sposato con una donna inglese e preoccupato per la sicurezza della famiglia, decide di lasciare il paese natale e riparare in Inghilterra. Nessuno chiede il parere di Lucy, che ha solo otto anni, quasi nove. E lei proprio non vuole andarsene, lasciare per sempre tutto quello che ama: i boschi, i pascoli, gli animali. Così, a mano a mano che il momento della partenza si avvicina, matura in Lucy un proposito: scappare di casa, solo per qualche giorno, per far cambiare idea al papà e alla mamma. Ma il caso vuole che sul sentiero del bosco ci sia una buca. Il caso vuole che il padre trovi un indumento smarrito da Lucy sulla spiaggia. Per caso, il destino della famiglia Gault prende una piega drammatica e assurda, scivola in un labirinto dal quale uscire sembra allo stesso tempo facilissimo e impossibile. È una quieta tragedia, appena sfiorata dagli eventi della storia maggiore, quella che vede protagonisti i Gault nei decenni seguenti. Col passare degli anni, il fardello di rimorsi inespressi e affetti negati si farà sempre più pesante, imponendo rinunce, sofferenze, silenziosi sacrifici. Finché proprio il tempo, alla fine, non porterà Lucy ad accettare con semplicità ciò che ogni giorno può offrire: serenamente, nell’impossibilità di decifrare il senso della propria storia.
William Trevor Libri
William Trevor esplora magistralmente le vite di persone comuni i cui mondi vengono irrevocabilmente alterati. Le sue storie si addentrano nelle complessità delle relazioni umane e negli angoli più oscuri della psiche, rivelando desideri nascosti, delusioni e svolte inaspettate del destino. Con un occhio attento ai dettagli e una prospettiva malinconica, Trevor svela i sottili cambiamenti che plasmano la nostra esistenza. La sua opera offre profonde meditazioni sulla memoria, l'identità e il fragile equilibrio tra passato e presente.







Una ragazza irlandese alla ricerca dell'uomo che l'ha abbandonata, un gentile signore di mezza età insolitamente premuroso, una sottile immagine nei lati più oscuri dell'umano. Un thriller raffinato e allo stesso tempo un romanzo di eccezionale profondità morale e psicologica, che ha rivelato in Italia il talento dell'irlandese William Trevor.
The Collected Stories - a stunning volume of William Trevor's unforgettable short storiesWilliam Trevor is one of the most renowned figures in contemporary literature, described as 'the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language' by the New Yorker and acclaimed for his haunting and profound insights into the human heart. Here is a collection of his short fiction, with dozens of tales spanning his career and ranging from the moving to the macabre, the humorous to the haunting. From the penetrating 'Memories of Youghal' to the bittersweet 'Bodily Secrets' and the elegiac 'Two More Gallants', here are masterpieces of insight, depth, drama and humanity, acutely rendered by a modern master.'A textbook for anyone who ever wanted to write a story, and a treasure for anyone who loves to read them' Madison Smartt Bell'Extraordinary... Mr. Trevor's sheer intensity of entry into the lives of his people...proceeds to uncover new layers of yearning and pain, new angles of vision and credible thought' The New York Times Book Review
Selected Stories
- 576pagine
- 21 ore di lettura
Featuring 48 masterfully crafted tales, this collection showcases the profound insights into the human condition that define the author's work. Celebrated as a leading contemporary short story writer, the stories explore a range of themes and emotions, offering readers a rich tapestry of experiences. Each narrative is a testament to the author's skill in capturing the complexities of life, making this anthology a significant contribution to the genre.
Ireland : selected stories
- 272pagine
- 10 ore di lettura
A new collection of nineteen stories--originally published in The Collected Stories and After the Rain--explores the complexities of rural and middle-class Irish life, capturing the people and their love, faith, duty, and survival in a culture that blends transformation with tradition. Original.
The News from Ireland
- 288pagine
- 11 ore di lettura
A collection of short stories by the author of "The Silence in the Garden", "Nights at the Alexandra", "Juliet's Story", "Fools of Fortune", "Two Lives" and "The Old Boys".
Elizabeth Alone
- 313pagine
- 11 ore di lettura
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?
After Rain
- 224pagine
- 8 ore di lettura
"There is no better short story writer in the English-speaking world."—Wall Street Journal Twelve remarkable stories by the master storyteller William Trevor. In this collection of twelve dazzling, acutely rendered tales, William Trevor plumbs the depths of the human heart. Here we encounter a blind piano tuner whose wonderful memories of his first wife are cruelly distorted by his second; a woman in a difficult marriage who must choose between her indignant husband and her closest friend; two children, survivors of divorce, who mimic their parents' melodramas; and a heartbroken woman traveling alone in Italy who experiences an epiphany while studying a forgotten artist's Annunciation. Trevor is, in his own words, "a storyteller. My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so." Conscious or not, he touches us in ways that few writers even dare to try. Trevor wrote eighteen novels and novellas, and hundreds of short stories, for which he has won a number of prizes including the Hawthornden Prize, the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award, the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and the David Cohen Literature Prize in recognition of a lifetime's literary achievement. In 2002 he was knighted for his services to literature.
In Ireland what began as both entertainment and communication through the spoken word grew into a literary form unmatched by any other country.The Oxford Book of Irish Short Storiestriumphantly demonstrates that development, from early folk tales of the oral tradition (here translated from the Irish) through Oliver Goldsmith, Maria Edgeworth, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce and Joyce Cary to Elizabeth Bowen, Liam O'Flaherty and such rising stars of today as Edna O'Brian and Desmond Hogan. William Trevor, himself a distinguished short story writer, brings a special sensibility and awareness to his role as editor. This wide-ranging collection of forty-six stories will certainly serve to entertain and enrich our understanding of a unique literary genre.



