Nights at the Alexandra: A Novella

By: William Trevor

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Synopsis: From the award-winning author of Love and Summer: A short novel about coming of age in WWII-era provincial Ireland that &“certainly lingers in the mind&” (Harriet Waugh, Spectator). At fifty-eight, Harry is a lifelong bachelor who never left the Irish village where he was born. But he will never forget the beautiful Englishwoman, and her much older German husband, who brought a new world into view when they escaped Hitler&’s Germany to come and live at Cloverhill. To fifteen-year-old Harry, Frau Messinger was a vision of elegance and culture unlike any he&’d ever known. Ignoring his family&’s suspicions, he was happy to fetch her packages in exchange for time spent in her company. But it wasn&’t only the horrors of history that drove Herr and Frau Messinger to Harry&’s village. And when Herr Messigner begins building a lavish art cinema, the Alexandra, as a gift to his dying wife, the project becomes Harry&’s lifelong obsession.