‘One of the masters of the short story’ Guardian
‘I have to tell you – you see, this is just about the strangest experience I have been through...’
These six stories of obsession, secrets, delusions and desires from one of the greatest European writers show individuals caught up in forces beyond their control – whether an art dealer agreeing to a heartbreaking deception, a soldier destroyed by war, a servant infatuated with her employer or a young boy witnessing illicit adult passions. Portraying innocence lost and lives crushed by history, each tale is a psychologically acute, startling human drama. Contains 'The Invisible Collection: An Episode from the German Inflation', 'Episode on Lake Geneva', 'Leporella', 'Buchmendel', 'The Buried Candelabrum', 'Burning Secret'
Translated by Jonathan Katz
'One of the masters of the short story.' ― Guardian
'They have an astringency of outlook and a mastery of scale that I find enormously enjoyable.' -- Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes
