Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung von Wechselbalg und andere Erzählungen
Für wen es gedacht ist
Readers who like short tales with an Irish ear, sudden changes of heart, old legends retold with a smile, and settings from Broadway to Thebes. Anyone who enjoys a storyteller by the fire.
Worum es in diesem Buch geht
What does a policeman say after nine years alone on a Pacific island with the woman he arrested for murder? The stories travel from New York courtrooms to Ulster farms, an Andean gorge, Irish hunting fields and the ancient lands of Solomon and Samson. You get love, pride, luck and the unexpected, told in a warm storyteller's voice. Begin in the courtroom, where a famous lawyer sits silent.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1A silent lawyer lets a policeman speakFree
- 2McCarthy holds to his duty
- 3A returning son finds home richer than imagined
- 4A hard mill owner meets a woman who stands her ground
- 5A bridge in the Andes asks for something
- 6Two Irish estates and the people who love them
- 7A would-be author and a boxer's father
- 8Old legends retold with warmth and humour
- 9Two tales of justice beyond the courts
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A silent lawyer lets a policeman speak
The opening story, Changeling, is set in a New York courtroom in January. Anna Janssen is on trial for shooting Alastair de Vries, a rich Broadway playboy, ten years earlier. The facts are plain and the witnesses are sure, yet the calm, sunburned woman in the dock looks nothing like the chorus girl they describe.
Her lawyer, Howard Donegan, is the most feared cross-examiner of his day. He does not question a single witness. He dozes, then rises to ask that the next witness, Officer Thomas McCarthy, tell his own story in his own way. McCarthy arrested her in Tahiti, and the crowd leans in to hear about the voyage home.
The idea underneath is that people can change so completely that the same body holds a new person. Byrne sets the question of guilt beside the question of who the prisoner has become.
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Questions about Wechselbalg und andere Erzählungen
What is Changeling and Other Stories about?
It is a collection of thirteen tales by Donn Byrne, mostly about Irish people at home and abroad.
Who wrote Changeling and Other Stories and when?
Donn Byrne writes these tales of love, pride and unexpected encounters.
What does the title Changeling mean?
In the title story, the word points to Anna Janssen, who seems to have become a different person from the chorus girl the witnesses describe. A changeling in folklore is a substituted person.
Are the stories connected to each other?
They stand alone, but common threads run through them: Irish voices, pride that must be humbled, love that changes people, and justice that goes beyond the law.
Is Changeling and Other Stories worth reading?
Yes for lovers of short fiction with a lively voice. The tales are brief, each has its own setting and mood, and many mix humour with feeling, so you can read one at a time.