Contains the title story in which the life of a peaceful public official is permanently changed by a mysterious illness, and includes "Family Happiness," "The Kreutzer Sonata," and "Master and Man," also by the ninteenth-century Russian author.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Nilo Cruz set in 1929 Florida in a Cuban-American cigar factory, where a new lector unwittingly becomes a catalyst in the lives of his avid listeners.