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This is a collection of classic short stories by the master of contemporary Irish short stories, describing the web of fate and desire, recreating the uncanny workmanship of "Irish Chekhov". This book collects 12 short stories by William Trevor, which explores the emotional limits of ordinary people in Irish cities and countryside who are concealed in controlled daily life. It is shown in the fact that everyone is voluntarily or unconsciously trapped in the web of fate and desire. Taking a step back means loss, and taking a step further comes with a price. Therefore, these 12 stories seem to have a continuing theme throughout - everyone is a prisoner of life. Whether it is an ill-fated couple who is greedy for inheritance and is fooled by the donor, but is grateful for the shackles, or an uninhibited prodigal who is burdened with the past of a lifetime and refuses to be influenced by money; whether it is a female painter who has been imprisoned by illusions all her life and quietly buried her first love in ignorance, or a white man who The parasitic father who is a prostitute but thinks of himself as his benefactor. As the author traces the source of every pain of the characters in the book, readers will find that there is a flame under every iceberg in the world, and a bullet can be fired from every gentle look. The collected article "The Mystery of Deli Mahren" has been adapted into a TV series by the BBC, which reproduces how people approach and avoid the truth, bury and create the truth of the murderous Rashomon case.