Cellists Kazuo Ishiguro

   This is a very interesting, but irritating short story. 

   A young cellist, Tibor, happened to be praised for his "potential" by a woman who "claims" that she is a gifted maestro. Tibor often goes to her to have cello practice. Strangely, she never demostrates her cello technique, but just verbally instructs him. When he returned from a holiday trip, he finds that her would-be-husband, Peter, was with her. She was going to America with Peter. Tibor departs for a cello job in a hotel in Amsterdam.

Seven years later the narrator finds Tibor had become an ordinary man with bitteness. 

I got angry with Eloise because while he was away from Peter and felt lonely she played with Tibor until she meets Peter. Immediately after she met Peter she said good-bye to Tibor. She might have enjoyed playing around with Tibor. I felt sorry for him. His talent "was ruined," by her.

Ishiguro is skillful because he lures the readers and lets them expect that Tibor and Eloise will have some romantic fruit, till they find no romance but a kind of destruction on the part of Tibor in the end.