The book consists of 3 novellas, Revenge, An Adventure of Don Juan & The King in the Tree. All 3 novellas deal with love and all three were amazing. Revenge is about a middle age woman showing her house to someone interested in buying it. We find out that she's dealing with the death of her husband after he disclosed that he had been having an affair. The story is all her side of the conversation as she leads the person through the house. The second novella An Adventure of Don Juan is a story about Don Juan being unhappy with his life seducing married women in Venice so he decides to go north to England. He stays with an acquaintance, his wife & his wife's sister. Long story short he has a little bit of a hard time seducing the one he wants as the main conflict of the story. The third novella The King in the Tree is a retelling of Tristan and Iseult and is amazing. Millhausers prose along with his gift for dark whimsy are simply brilliant.
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