by William Trevor · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140153729
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«Two Lives: Reading Turgenev & My House in Umbria» is the volume of two novels by William Trevor published by Penguin in paperback, 384 pages, in English.
In «Reading Turgenev», a young Irish woman trapped in a loveless marriage finds solace in secret meetings with a man who shares her passion for Russian literature. In «My House in Umbria», novelist Emily Delahunty helps survivors of a train bombing by inventing colorful pasts for them.
The two novels are brought together in this volume; «Reading Turgenev» was shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction, especially those interested in short novels with an Irish setting and female protagonists.
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.
