num_pages: 212
description: After Rain - Twelve remarkable stories by the master storyteller William TrevorIn 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.
language: English
title: After Rain
titlecomplete: After Rain
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, Irish Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Fiction, Short Stories, Ireland
ratings_count: 1855
places: London, England, Ireland
publisher: Penguin