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A Best Book of the Year: San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Minneapolis Star Tribune Here is a selection of Munro's most accomplished and powerfully affecting short fiction from the last two decades, a companion volume to A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994. These stories encompass the fullness of human experience, from the wild exhilaration of first love (in "Passion") to the punishing consequences of leaving home ("Runaway") or end...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable Work of FictionA Best Book of the Year: The Atlantic, NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, Vogue, AV ClubIn story after story in this brilliant new collection, Alice Munro pinpoints the moment a person is forever altered by a chance encounter, an action not taken, or a simple twist of fate. Her characters are flawed and fully human: a soldier returning...

A selection of short stories from the acclaimed Canadian writer, who won the Man Booker International Prize 2009. 'The best short story writer alive...' "Independent

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, ...

Tanz der seligen Geister war das Debüt der großen Meisterin der kleinen Form. Die Sammlung erschien im Original 1968 und wird nun erstmals auf deutsch herausgegeben. Bereits hier zeigt sich Alice Munro als präzise, unsentimentale und abgründige Chronistin zeitgenössischen Alltagslebens. Stehen in ihren späteren Büchern jedoch Frauen mittleren Alters im Vordergrund, so finden sich in Tanz der seligen Geister vor allem Erzählungen vom Erwachsenw...

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.

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Twelve stories with themes of heartbreak and the sadness of women aging. A subtle and passionate collection.

El amor, que nos acecha desde el pasado o nos reclama desde el futuro, es el tema central de esta nueva colección de cuentos de la gran Alice Munro. ¿Bastan un beso robado, un salto desde un tren en marcha, la sombra de una mujer que me rodea alrededor de una casa, una borrachera de media tarde o las preguntas arriesgadas de una niña para conformar un mundo que se baste a sí mismo y cuente la vida entera? Si quien escribe es Alice Munro un si...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013The only novel from Alice Munro-award-winning author of The Love of a Good Woman--is an insightful, honest book, "autobiographical in form but not in fact, " that chronicles a young girl's growing up in rural Ontario in the 1940's. Del Jordan lives out at the end of the Flats Road on her father's fox farm, where her most frequent companions are an eccentric bachelor family friend and her rough young...

Munro's stories enact what can only be called a sort of magic' - Ali SmithSpanning her last five collections and bringing together her finest work from the past fifteen years, this new selection of Alice Munro's stories infuses everyday lives with a wealth of nuance and insight. Written with emotion and empathy, beautifully observed and remarkably crafted, these stories are nothing short of perfection. A masterclass in the genre, from an autho...

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From the award-winning and bestselling author of "Runaway" comes a new book of short stories that is as transporting as anything shes ever written ("New York Times").

Le donne che tessono la trama di questi otto racconti sono spesso osservate nel punto di svolta della loro vita. Avvenimenti dimenticati, sogni ad occhi aperti, incontri fortuiti squarciano all'improvviso l'orizzonte e ci conducono in territori lontani e di frequente ignorati. Il sogno d'amore che Louisa vive in tempo di guerra e viene infranto quando la vita riprende il pacato ritmo quotidiano riaffiorerà con forza in un momento inaspettato. ...

Ogni vita e ogni grande opera letteraria - sostiene Antonia Byatt contengono elementi del probabile e insieme fratture e disastri. L'interesse di Alice Munro è da sempre rivolto sia al tessuto della normalità sia al colpo di forbici che lo taglia di netto. In questi racconti continua a vedere e registrare la quotidianità terrestre. Ma sembra guardare oltre. Le vite umane amorosamente raccontate vanno e vengono a lampi, interrotte dal disastro....

Le protagoniste di "Le lune di Giove" sono donne a una svolta: una svolta dell'età o del gusto, della rabbia o della passione, una delle piccole o grandi svolte quotidiane che plasmano le vite e i caratteri, e che potrebbero forse passare inavvertite non fosse per l'intelligenza vivida e acuminata che le individua e le svela. Per molte di loro la svolta è amorosa, e in qualche raro caso la reazione rabbiosamente solutiva. La protagonista di "A...