一次偶然的邂逅让一个男人与一个年长的女人（现在是寡妇）共度了一个下午，后者在十五年前逃离了这个男人。他们俩都没有怀疑这一天会以厌恶结束，但每个人都在一个亲密的时刻找到了克服死亡的方法。

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.

A chance encounter leads a man to spend the afternoon with an older woman, now a widow, who escaped him fifteen years earlier. Neither of them doubts that the day will end in disgust, but for one intimate moment each finds a way to overcome mortality.

Written in 1969, before Milan Kundera was known to English-speaking readers, this story renders male and female characters painful equals, and prompted Philip Roth to admire its 'detached Chekhovian tenderness'.

Bringing together past, present and future in our ninetieth year, Faber Stories is a celebratory compendium of collectable work.