by William Trevor · Edhasa · tapa dura · ISBN 9788435013307
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«Noches en el Alexandra» is the novel by William Trevor, published by Edhasa in hardcover (123 pages, in Spanish).
Harry, now in middle age, recalls his childhood in Cloverhill, an Irish village where he ran errands for Frau Messinger, a German woman who arouses suspicion. Conversations with her and her husband's determination to open a movie theater, the Alexandra, transform his life: Harry ends up working there and eventually becomes the owner.
The novel appeared in 1988 in a Spanish-language edition from Edhasa, with 123 pages, and falls within contemporary fiction.
For readers of contemporary fiction seeking stories of memory, cinema, and Irish rural life.
William Trevor Cox was an Irish novelist, playwright, and short story writer. One of the elder statesmen of the Irish literary world, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest contemporary writers of short stories in the English language. Trevor won the Whitbread Prize three times and was nominated five times for the Booker Prize, the last for his novel Love and Summer (2009), which was also shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award in 2011. His name was also mentioned in relation to the Nobel Prize in Literature.
