After Rain: William Trevor

After Rain - 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.