Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Nocturnes (short story collection)" in English language version.
Ultimately this is a lovely, clever book about the passage of time and the soaring notes that make its journey worthwhile.
She cannot actually play the instrument at all. So convinced was she of her own musical genius, no teacher ever seemed equal to it, and so rather than tarnish her gift with imperfection, she chose never to realise it at all.
All five stories have unreliable male narrators, who are musicians of some kind, and are written in the first person.
Closing the book, it's hard to recall much more than an atmosphere or an air; a few bars of music, half-heard, technically accomplished, quickly forgotten.
