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This powerful book from Alice Munro is family history explored through fiction, as it recounts the experiences of her antecedents, who left Scotland for the New World at the beginning of the 19th century, interweaving their stories with those of subsequent generations. A work of great resonance, and strongly reviewed. 'A stunning achievement' "The Times

A dazzling selection of stories- 17 favorites picked by the author- ranging across her distinguished career.

**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**Winner of the Man Booker International Prize for 2009, Alice Munro is the author of eleven collections of stories, most recently The View from Castle Rock, and a novel, Lives of Girls and Women. She has received many awards and prizes, including three of Canada's Governor General's Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, the W.H. Smith Book ...

Dear life", cara vita... Il titolo originale della tredicesima raccolta di storie di Alice Munro sembra la consueta formula epistolare di un pacificato congedo. Ma ha anche, nel contesto narrativo e nell'espressione idiomatica da cui proviene, il senso di un pericolo appena scampato. Scrivere alla vita, dunque, per uscirne vivi. Con l'urgenza di ogni fuga, un'impazienza nuova che si manifesta in un inedito nitore. Quello della narratrice di "G...

Cosa accade quando una donna decide di assecondare la sua passione e seguire l'uomo che ama, ma dimentica le sue figlie? Oppure quando sceglie di inseguire il sogno di giorni più felici aggrappandosi alle lettere scritte a uno sconosciuto? Quanto resta dei tanti anni di gioia passati insieme alla propria moglie, se lei ne sta perdendo lentamente il ricordo? Le domande a cui rispondono le storie di Alice Munro lasciano sempre pieni di dubbi. E ...

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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers-the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize. With clarity and ease, Alice Munro once again renders complex, difficult events and emotions into stories about the unpredictable ways in which men and women accommodate and often transcend what happens in their lives. In the first story a young wife and mother, suffering from...

A brilliant, compelling new collection from the winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009. A wife and mother, whose spirit has been crushed, finds release from her extraordinary pain in the most unlikely place. The young victim of a humiliating seduction finds an unusual way to get her own back. An older woman, dying of cancer, weaves a poisonous story to save her life. Alice Munro takes on complex, even harrowing emotions and events, ...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013In the her tenth collection (the title story of which is the basis for the new film Hateship Loveship), Alice Munro achieves new heights, creating narratives that loop and swerve like memory, and conjuring up characters as thorny and contradictory as people we know ourselves.A tough-minded housekeeper jettisons the habits of a lifetime because of a teenager's practical joke. A college student visiti...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013In the thirteen stories in her remarkable second collection, Alice Munro demonstrates the precise observation, straightforward prose style, and masterful technique that led no less a critic than John Updike to compare her to Chekhov. The sisters, mothers and daughters, aunts, grandmothers, and friends in these stories shimmer with hope and love, anger and reconciliation, as they contend with their h...

With the ease and mastery that have won extraordinary acclaim for her writing, Alice Munro explores the most intimate and transforming moments of experience -- moments when the shape of a life is set, moments of realization about the burden, the power, and the nature of love.Alice Munro's characters, vulnerable and inured to hardship, find themselves struggling in a brutal yet mysteriously beautiful world: a young man contends with the respons...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013In these eight tales, Munro evokes the devastating power of old love suddenly recollected. She tells of vanished schoolgirls and indentured frontier brides and an eccentric recluse who, in the course of one surpassingly odd dinner party, inadvertently lands herself a wealthy suitor from exotic Australia. And Munro shows us how one woman's romantic tale of capture and escape in the high Balkans may e...

In these piercingly lovely and endlessly surprising stories by one of the most acclaimed current practitioners of the art of fiction, many things happen: there are betrayals and reconciliations, love affairs consummated and mourned.

In eight new stories, a master of the form extends and magnifies her great themes--the vagaries of love, the passion that leads down unexpected paths, the chaos hovering just under the surface of things, and the strange, often comical desires of the human heart. Time stretches out in some of the stories: a man and a woman look back forty years to the summer they met--the summer, as it turns out, that the true nature of their lives was revealed...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013The ten miraculously accomplished stories in Alice Munro's Friend of My Youth not only astonish and delight but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience. "[Friend of My Youth is] a wonderful collection of stories, beautifully written and deeply felt."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013In these fifteen short stories--her eighth collection of short stories in a long and distinguished career--Alice Munro conjures ordinary lives with an extraordinary vision, displaying the remarkable talent for which she is now widely celebrated. Set on farms, by river marshes, in the lonely towns and new suburbs of western Ontario, these tales are luminous acts of attention to those vivid moments wh...

Vintage paperback edition of this latest collection of short stories from Alice Munro, again demonstrating her masterful use of the form.

Nobelpreis für Literatur 2013 Alice Munro: Jonathan Franzen zählt sie zu den größten Erzählern der Welt und stellt sie über Tschechow, und für Doris Dörrie »schärft sie die Sinne«. Doch wie hat Alice Munro ihre Kunst entdeckt? In ihrem großartigen Debüt >Tanz der seligen Geister< finden wir die Antwort: Das erste Buch der großen Meisterin der kleinen Form, 15 Erzählungen davon, erwachsen zu werden und die eigene Stimme zu finden. Im Original...

Nobelpreis für Literatur 2013 »Wozu wollen Sie das wissen?« Alice Munros Spurensuche in der eigenen Familiengeschichte und Erinnerung führt in die reizvolle Wirklichkeit von Dichtung und Wahrheit: elf Erzählungen der großen kanadischen Autorin, in denen sie Historie und Imagination auf faszinierende Weise miteinander verquickt.

A re-jacketed version of the bestselling collection of short stories by the Man Booker International-winning author of short story collections and novels, expertly conveying the pain and desolation beneath the surface.