The husband of his lover and other short stories

Drawn from a personal or someone else’s anecdote, or a commonplace and apparently inconsequential occurrence, these tales reveal surprising backstories, complex motivations and unusual human relationships. The effort to rescue a cat up a tree, a phone call about the death of a former rival in adolescent love, a silly married-couple argument, an extreme preoccupation with being on time, an erotic obsession, a psychological complex over masculinity, a dream-like episode and a crime of passion are the starting points for the painstaking psychological explorations of fascinating inner lives.