Mestressa de casa troba temps per escriure relats, declarava el titular dun dels primers reportatges sobre la jove Alice Munro, lany 1961. Cinquanta anys més tard, al Canadà li diuen el nostre Txèkhov...
Una família passeja un dissabte a la tarda per un bosc on la copa dels arbres dissimula coves traïdores. El fill gran cau en una d'elles, i tota la seva vida queda afectada pel descobriment d?aquesta veritat: sota la superfície llisa...
Spanning almost thirty years and settings that range from big cities to small towns and farmsteads of rural Canada, this magnificent collection brings together twenty-eight stories by a writer of unparalleled wit, generosity, and emotional power. In A...
First published in 1971, this is the only novel from the Canadian author Alice Munro, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013. It follows the adolescence of Del Jordan, and her brushes with sex, death, violence and birth. 'Munro is so good that...
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...
Alice Munro captures the essence of life in her brilliant new collection of stories. Moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate that leads a person to a new way of thinking or being: the stories in Dear Life build to form a radiant, indelible...
In 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 from...
In the first story a young wife and mother receives release from the unbearable pain of losing her three children from a most surprising source. In another, a young woman, in the aftermath of an unusual and humiliating seduction, reacts in a clever if...
Brilliantly paced, lit with sparks of danger and underlying menace, these are dazzling, provocative stories about Svengali men, and radical women who outmanoeuvre them, about destructive marriages and curdled friendships, about mothers and sons, about...
A young girl gets an unexpected glimpse into her father's past. A married woman tries to release her homebound sister after the death of their mother. The audience at a piano recital receives a transforming surprise. These early stories conjure ordinary...
This acclaimed, bestselling collection also contains the celebrated stories that inspired the Pedro Almodóvar film Julieta. Runaway  is a book of extraordinary stories about love and its infinite betrayals and surpris...
From her ancestors' view from Edinburgh's Castle Rock in the eighteenth century to her parents' thwarted ambitions in Ontario, and her own awakening in 1950s Canada, Munro effortlessly weaves fact and myth to create an epic story of past and...
" A remarkable writer whose character emerge in shining clarity.. A major talent is at work here " Los Angeles Times. Alice Munro's territory is the farms and semi-rural towns of south-western Ontario. In these dazzling stories she deals...