David E. Cooper

An elderly man's relationship with his old leather belt takes a strange turn

Colleagues try to retrieve a typescript after its author suffers a stroke - with unexpected results.

A man becomes increasingly averse to various sounds, with problematic results.

The reclusive Michael is devoted to the Japanese bamboo flute. When his pupil, Clare, introduces him to a young American player, a jealous Michael hatches an unusual plan to discredit him.

A rich Englishman decides to spend his life wandering around Sri Lanka in order, he believes, to live in accordance with the Buddha's teachings.

When an elderly man receives a letter he wrote to three girls nearly sixty years earlier, he returns to a town on the Italian Riviera to recall the day he met them.