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The first-ever selection of one of the world's greatest living short-story writers, winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009.
This first-ever selection of Alice Munro's stories sums up her genius. Her territory is the secrets that cackle beneath the faà ade of everyday lives, the pain and promises, loves and fears of apparently ordinary men and women whom she renders extraordinary and unforgettable.

Produktbeschreibung
The first-ever selection of one of the world's greatest living short-story writers, winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009.
This first-ever selection of Alice Munro's stories sums up her genius. Her territory is the secrets that cackle beneath the faà ade of everyday lives, the pain and promises, loves and fears of apparently ordinary men and women whom she renders extraordinary and unforgettable.
Autorenporträt
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

Alice Munro was born in 1931 and is the author of thirteen collections of stories, most recently Dear Life, 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 WHSmith Book Award in the UK, the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for The Beggar Maid, and has been awarded the Man Booker International Prize 2009 for her overall contribution to fiction on the world stage, and in 2013 she won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages.

She lives in Port Hope, Ontario, near lake Ontario in Canada.
Rezensionen
Munro is a great realist, and her powers come from her sense of the way in which communities - especially small, socially anxious, limited ones - construct and guard their reality. James Wood London Review of Books