by Rose Tremain · Chatto & Windus · tapa dura · ISBN 9781860560323
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«The Darkness of Wallis Simpson» is Rose Tremain's collection of short stories, published by Chatto & Windus in hardback (224 pages, in English).
The collection starts from Wallis Simpson, the woman for whom Edward VIII abdicated, to imagine her seclusion in Paris and the selectivity of her memory: she remembers the trivial, but forgets the king. Other stories include an East German border guard cycling towards Russia, a winged baby, and a character who escapes from an Impressionist painting.
Published in 2005, the book belongs to contemporary fiction and the short story, with the historical figure of Wallis Simpson as the axis of the main story.
For readers of short stories and contemporary fiction who appreciate irony and psychological portraiture.
Dame Rosemary Jane Tremain is an English novelist, short story writer, and former Chancellor of the University of East Anglia. She as been the recipient of many prizes for her writing, including the Giles Cooper Award (1984), the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1992), the Whitbread Award (1999) and the Orange Prize (2008).
