Disappointed by his dull family and his stifling boarding school, Harry soaks up Frau Messinger’s stories of her youth and indulges her numerous flights of fancy.
Gently imperious yet strikingly beautiful, Frau Messinger, a young British woman married to a much older German, introduces a measure of color into Harry’s otherwise black and white existence.
Tracing the reminiscences of a fifty eight year old Irish cinema owner named Harry, the story recounts the years during Harry’s adolescence when he forges an unlikely friendship with an migr couple recently arrived in his small town. Set in a provincial Irish town against the backdrop of the Second World War, Nights at the Alexandra is a masterpiece of short fiction. Hailed as ‘probably the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language’ by The New Yorker and ‘an extraordinarily mellifluous writer, seemingly incapable of composing an ungraceful sentence’ by The New York Times Book Review, William Trevor is one of our most elegaic chroniclers of loss.
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