Background
Munro, Alice Ann was born on July 10, 1931 in Wingham, Ontario, Canada. Daughter of Robert Eric and Anne Clarke (Chamney) Laidlaw.
(WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013 In these f...)
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013 In 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 when revelation emerges from the layers of experience that lie behind even the most everyday events and lives. "Virtuosity, elemental command, incisive like a diamond, remarkable: all these descriptions fit Alice Munro."--Christian Science Monitor "How does one know when one is in the grip of art--of a major talent?....It is art that speaks from the pages of Alice Munro's stories."--Wall Street Journal
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(In the 15 short stories, Munro contrasts the ordinary lif...)
In the 15 short stories, Munro contrasts the ordinary life with extraordinary perspectives, revealing her characteristics as a classical writer. The stories occur in farms, riverside wetland, and the isolate towns and newly rising suburbs in Western Ontario. A girl follows her father in his door-to-door selling, but accidentally discovers his long-buried love; two pairs of men and women that don¡¯t know each other hold their horse and comfort each other in the small towns; the old lady helps the mentally handicapped children communicate with another world through music... The author pays her attention to common people¡¯s desire and regrets, delight and pain of love, despair and sense of guilt in life, making us see people¡¯s common ambition, fear and sadness.
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(Alice Munro's territory is the farms and semi-rural towns...)
Alice Munro's territory is the farms and semi-rural towns of south-western Ontario. In these dazzling stories she deals with the self-discovery of adolescence, the joys and pains of love and the despair and guilt of those caught in a narrow existence. And in sensitively exploring the lives of ordinary men and women, she makes us aware of the universal nature of their fears, sorrows and aspirations.
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(WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013 In these p...)
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013 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. But the true events in The Moons Of Jupiter are the ways in which the characters are transformed over time, coming to view their past selves with an anger, regret, and infinite compassion that communicate themselves to us with electrifying force.
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(WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013 Alice Munr...)
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013 Alice Munro, who received the National Book Critics Circle Award for her latest collection of stories, The Love of a Good Woman, is widely acknowledged as a modern master of the short story. In this earlier collection, she demonstrates all of those strengths that have won her so many literary accolades. A divorced woman returns to her childhood home where she confronts the memory of her parents' confounding yet deep bond. The accidental near-drowning of a child exposes the fragility of the trust between children and parents. A young man, remembering a terrifying childhood incident, wrestles with the responsibility he has always felt for his younger brother. In these and other stories Alice Munro proves once again a sensitive and compassionate chronicler of our times. Drawing us into the most intimate corners of ordinary lives, she reveals much about ourselves, our choices, and our experiences of love.
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(WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013 The ten mi...)
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013 The 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
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(With an Introduction by Bonnie Burnard In Friend of My Y...)
With an Introduction by Bonnie Burnard In Friend of My Youth, Alice Munro dazzles with her finely nuanced depictions of the human heart. These 10 stories bring to life characters in a remarkable variety of times and places, as real and recognizable as ourselves.
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(Una coleccion de relatos de la autora que actualmente est...)
Una coleccion de relatos de la autora que actualmente esta considerada la maestra mundial en el genero. «Los relatos de Alice Munro contienen muchas veces novelas enteras, abarcan amplitudes temporales y saltos de generaciones que uno no imaginaba que pudieran caber en el espacio de unas pocas decenas de paginas.» ANTONIO MUnOZ MOLINA. En los diez relatos que componen Amistad de juventud se recrean los misterios que anidan en el centro de la experiencia humana. Multiples vidas circulan por sus paginas, las vidas de hombres y mujeres que rememoran los deseos y los suenos que enterraron hace ya quiza demasiado, las vidas que resultaron de elecciones incomprensibles pero que asimismo las han moldeado hasta convertirlas en lo que son. La mano sabia de Alice Munro lo describe todo con una piedad y un arte inusitados, haciendo de este libro una verdadera obra maestra.
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(WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013 In these e...)
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013 In 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 end up inspiring another woman who is fleeing a husband and lover in present-day Canada. "Open Secrets is a book that dazzles with its faith in language and in life."--New York Times Book Review
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(From the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature—and...)
From the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature—and one of our most beloved writers—a new selection of her peerless short fiction, gathered from the collections of the last two decades, a companion volume to Selected Stories (1968-1994). Family Furnishings brings us twenty-four of Alice Munro’s most accomplished, most powerfully affecting stories, many of them set in the territory she has so brilliantly made her own: the small towns and flatlands of southwestern Ontario. Subtly honed with her hallmark precision, grace, and compassion, these stories illuminate the quotidian yet extraordinary particularity in the lives of men and women, parents and children, friends and lovers as they discover sex, fall in love, part, quarrel, suffer defeat, set off into the unknown, or find a way to be in the world. Peopled with characters as real to us as we are to ourselves, Munro’s stories encompass the fullness of human experience—from the wild exhilaration of first love, in “Passion,” to the lengths a once-straying husband will go to make his wife happy as her memory fades, in “The Bear Came Over the Mountain.” Other stories suggest the punishing consequences of leaving home (“Runaway”) or leaving a marriage (“The Children Stay”). The part romantic love plays in one’s existence is explored in “Too Much Happiness,” based on the life of the noted nineteenth-century mathematician, Sophia Kovalevsky. And in stories that Munro has described as “closer to the truth than usual”—“Dear Life,” “Working for a Living,” and “Home” among them—we glimpse the author’s own life. As the Nobel Prize presentation speech says in part: “Reading one of Alice Munro’s texts is like watching a cat walk across a laid dinner table. A brief short story can often cover decades, summarizing a life, as she moves deftly between different periods. No wonder Alice Munro is often able to say more in thirty pages than an ordinary novelist is capable of in three hundred. She is a virtuoso of the elliptical and the master of the contemporary short story.”
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(Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fict...)
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction! A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice! Riveting...lovely..Poetic moments punctuate no-nonsense storytelling in just the right way. Munro is indisputably a master..A better book of stories can scarcely be imagined. In perhaps her boldest collection to date, short story master Alice Munro evokes with almost clairvoyant assurance the vagaries of love, the tension and deceit that lie in wait under the polite surface of society, and the strange, often comical desires of the human heart.
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(In the her tenth collection (the title story of which is ...)
In 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 visiting her brassy, unconventional aunt stumbles on an astonishing secret and its meaning in her own life. An incorrigible philanderer responds with unexpected grace to his wife's nursing-home romance. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage is Munro at her best, tirelessly observant, serenely free of illusion, deeply and gloriously humane.
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( Alice Munro nos invita a participar en un juego cuyas r...)
Alice Munro nos invita a participar en un juego cuyas reglas pronto se conocen gracias a dos niñas del Ontario de los años cuarenta: escribe tu nombre y el del chico que te gusta, tacha todas las letras que se repiten y cuenta el resto recitando: «odio, amistad, noviazgo, amor, matrimonio». Cuando llegues al final averiguarás qué os depara el futuro. Tras este juego infantil e inocente se esconden preguntas de gran profundidad: ¿Cómo nacen las relaciones? ¿Son fruto de la casualidad o del destino? ¿Son de la misma naturaleza las que escogemos de las que no? En los nueve relatos recogidos en este libro, la literatura se vuelve itinerante como la memoria misma, y crea personajes tan contradictorios como cualquier persona de carne y hueso. English Descriptin A tough-minded housekeeper jettisons the habits of a lifetime because of a teenager’s practical joke. A college student visiting her brassy, unconventional aunt stumbles on an astonishing secret and its meaning in her own life. An incorrigible philanderer responds with unexpected grace to his wife’s nursing-home romance. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage is Munro at her best, tirelessly observant, serenely free of illusion, deeply and gloriously humane.
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(In this book, Munro refines almost all the themes of peop...)
In this book, Munro refines almost all the themes of people¡¯s emotional life and, through sharp and subtle language, records nine stories that are extremely close to the truth of life. Emotions are boundless, degradation is bottomless, and life can¡¯t be measured by winning or losing... Whatever the era is, the wisdom of the stories are claptrap for the occasion and even predictive--they discuss the possibilities and consequences of life.
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(This classic collection—now revised and expanded—is the p...)
This classic collection—now revised and expanded—is the perfect introduction to Nobel Laureate Alice Munro's brilliant, revelatory short stories, in which she unfolds the wordless secrets that lie at the center of human experience. The stories in this volume span Munro's career: The title stories from her collections The Moons of Jupiter; The Progress of Love; and Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage; “Differently,” from Friend of My Youth; “Carried Away,” from Open Secrets; and (new to this edition) "In Sight of the Lake," from Dear Life. Vintage Munro also includes the text of the Nobel Prize Presentation Speech, given by Peter Englund, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy.
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( WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013 Alice Mu...)
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013 Alice Munro mines her rich family background, melding it with her own experiences and the transforming power of her brilliant imagination, to create perhaps her most powerful and personal collection yet. A young boy, taken to Edinburgh’s Castle Rock to look across the sea to America, catches a glimpse of his father’s dream. Scottish immigrants experience love and loss on a journey that leads them to rural Ontario. Wives, mothers, fathers, and children move through uncertainty, ambivalence, and contemplation in these stories of hopes, adversity, and wonder. The View from Castle Rock reveals what is most essential in Munro’s art: her compassionate understanding of ordinary lives.
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(The View from Castle Rock traces the generations of Munro...)
The View from Castle Rock traces the generations of Munro's family, from the title story—where through a haze of whiskey Alice's ancestors gaze north from Edinburgh Castle at the Fife coast, believing that it is North America—to Munro's firstperson stories, set during her lifetime, and all the way to the final story, where we travel with “Alice Munro” today. In the author's words, these stories “pay more attention to the truth of a life than fiction usually does. But not enough to swear on.”
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(The world's finest living short story writer turns to her...)
The world's finest living short story writer turns to her family for inspiration; and what follows is a fictionalised, brilliantly imagined version of the past. From her ancestors' view from Edinburgh's Catle 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 present, proving that fiction has much to tell us about life.
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(En unos relatos que son más personales que todos los que ...)
En unos relatos que son más personales que todos los que ha escrito antes, Alice Munro reconstruye la historia de su familia en una ficción imaginada magníficamente. Un niño es llevado a Castle Rock en Edimburgo, donde su padre le asegura que en un día de buena visibilidad se ve América, y él alcanza a ver el sueño de su padre. En los relatos posteriores, al hacerse realidad el sueño, dos cuñadas experimentan tipos de pasión muy distintos en la larga travesía al Nuevo Mundo; un bebé se pierde y vuelve a aparecer como por arte de magia en el viaje desde Illinois a la frontera canadiense. Otros relatos se suceden en el territorio más cercano a Munro, los pueblos y los campos alrededor del lago Huron, donde asoma el pasado en el presente como las huellas del paso de un glaciar en el paisaje y poderosas emociones se agitan justo bajo la superficie de los vaivenes cotidianos. El primer amor florece bajo el manzano mientras una pasión más intensa se presenta en el establo. Una chica contratada como empleada doméstica en verano, e incómoda por su «lugar» en el elegante mundo veraniego al que ha llegado, experimenta una transformación gracias al perspicaz regalo de despedida de su jefe. Un padre cuyas iniciales expectativas de éxito en la cría de zorros se ven frustradas encuentra un extraño consuelo en un trabajo nocturno rutinario en una fundición. Una chica lista huye de su pueblo para ir a la universidad y casarse. Evocadores, inesperados, cautivadores, con gancho, estos relatos reflejan la profundidad y la riqueza de la experiencia de la autora. La vista desde Castle Rock es un logro brillante de una de las mejores escritoras de nuestro tiempo.
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La coleccion de cuentos mas reciente de la gran autora canadiense. «La gran autora de las letras canadienses y una de las mejores cuentistas regresa con la deslumbrante Demasiada felicidad.» Elvira Lindo, Babelia, El Pais. Una joven madre recibe consuelo inesperado por la muerte de sus tres hijos, otra mujer reacciona de forma insolita ante la humillacion a la que la somete un hombre; otros cuentos describen la crueldad de los ninos y los huecos de soledad que se crean en el dia a dia de la vida de pareja. Como broche de oro, en el ultimo cuento acompanamos a Sofia Kovalevski, una matematica rusa que realmente vivio a mediados del siglo XIX, en su largo peregrinaje a traves de Europa en busca de una universidad que admitiera a mujeres como profesoras, y viviremos con ella su historia de amor con un hombre que hizo lo que supo por decepcionarla.
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(נערה צעירה זוכה להצצה בלתי צפויה לעברו של אביה; סוכן מכיר...)
נערה צעירה זוכה להצצה בלתי צפויה לעברו של אביה; סוכן מכירות, כשביום קיץ אחד באמצע נסיעת מכירות שגרתית הוא עוצר לבקר את אהובת נעוריו; אישה נשואה חוזרת הביתה אחרי מות אמה החולה, ומנסה לשחרר את אחותה שנשארה מאחור לטפל בה; הקהל ברסיטל פסנתר של ילדים מקבל שיעור מפתיע אשר לכוחה של אמנות לחולל שינוי כשתלמידה פגועת נפש מנגנת לפניהם במוזיקליות בלתי צפויה. בחמישה עשר סיפורים קצרים, אליס מונרו משרטטת חיים רגילים בראייה חדה כתער, ומפגינה את הכישרון יוצא הדופן שזיכה אותה בפרסים כה רבים. הסיפורים שלה מתרחשים בחוות, ליד מישור הנהר, בעיירות המבודדות ובפרברים החדשים של מערב אונטריו, ומפנים את תשומת הלב לרגעים שבהם מבליחה ההתגלות מתוך ההתרחשויות היומיומיות ביותר, מתוך החיים הרגילים ביותר. "אליס מונרו היא אמנית הסיפור הקצר המודרני... והיא טיפחה אותו לכלל שלמות... מונרו משרטטת דיוקנים מופלאים של ההוויה האנושית ומעלה שאלות קיומיות דרך תיאורי היומיום שלנו... אנשים קטנים, רגשות גדולים."
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(Una coleccion de relatos de la autora que actualmente est...)
Una coleccion de relatos de la autora que actualmente esta considerada la maestra mundial en el genero. «¡Lean a Munro! ¡Lean a Munro!» JONATHAN FRANZEN. Los relatos de este volumen son conmovedores y sorprendentes, y en ellos suceden muchas cosas: traiciones y reconciliaciones, amores consumados y lamentados. Pero los hechos que realmente subyacen en Las lunas de Jupiter son las transformaciones que sufren sus personajes con el paso del tiempo hasta observar su pasado con la ira, el resentimiento y la compasion infinita que nadie sabe comunicarnos como Alice Munro
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("There are relatively few unrivalled writers writing now....)
"There are relatively few unrivalled writers writing now. Munro is one."—Richard Ford With the ease and mastery that have won extraordinary acclaim for her writing, these eleven stories by Alice Munro explore the most intimate and transforming moments of experience-moments when the shape of life is set, moments of realization about the burden, the power, and the nature of love.
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(From the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature—and...)
From the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature—and one of our most beloved writers—a new selection of her peerless short fiction, gathered from the collections of the last two decades, a companion volume to Selected Stories (1968-1994). Family Furnishings brings us twenty-four of Alice Munro’s most accomplished, most powerfully affecting stories, many of them set in the territory she has so brilliantly made her own: the small towns and flatlands of southwestern Ontario. Subtly honed with her hallmark precision, grace, and compassion, these stories illuminate the quotidian yet extraordinary particularity in the lives of men and women, parents and children, friends and lovers as they discover sex, fall in love, part, quarrel, suffer defeat, set off into the unknown, or find a way to be in the world. Peopled with characters as real to us as we are to ourselves, Munro’s stories encompass the fullness of human experience—from the wild exhilaration of first love, in “Passion,” to the lengths a once-straying husband will go to make his wife happy as her memory fades, in “The Bear Came Over the Mountain.” Other stories suggest the punishing consequences of leaving home (“Runaway”) or leaving a marriage (“The Children Stay”). The part romantic love plays in one’s existence is explored in “Too Much Happiness,” based on the life of the noted nineteenth-century mathematician, Sophia Kovalevsky. And in stories that Munro has described as “closer to the truth than usual”—“Dear Life,” “Working for a Living,” and “Home” among them—we glimpse the author’s own life. As the Nobel Prize presentation speech says in part: “Reading one of Alice Munro’s texts is like watching a cat walk across a laid dinner table. A brief short story can often cover decades, summarizing a life, as she moves deftly between different periods. No wonder Alice Munro is often able to say more in thirty pages than an ordinary novelist is capable of in three hundred. She is a virtuoso of the elliptical and the master of the contemporary short story.”
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(Best friends Annabelle Doll and Tiffany Funcraft have stu...)
Best friends Annabelle Doll and Tiffany Funcraft have stumbled upon an unexpected visitor, a new doll named Tilly May. She's arrived in a mysterious package...but she looks so familiar. Could she be Annabelle's long-lost baby sister? It'll take a runaway adventure to find out for sure. Are the dolls ready for life on the road?
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(Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and adm...)
Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers-the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize. 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 less-than-admirable fashion. Other stories uncover the "deep-holes" in a marriage, the unsuspected cruelty of children, and how a boy's disfigured face provides both the good things in his life and the bad. And in the long title story, we accompany Sophia Kovalevsky-a late-nineteenth-century Russian émigré and mathematician-on a winter journey that takes her from the Riviera, where she visits her lover, to Paris, Germany, and, Denmark, where she has a fateful meeting with a local doctor, and finally to Sweden, where she teaches at the only university in Europe willing to employ a female mathematician. With clarity and ease, Alice Munro once again renders complex, difficult events and emotions into stories that shed light on the unpredictable ways in which men and women accommodate and often transcend what happens in their lives. Too Much Happiness is a compelling, provocative-even daring-collection.
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(The only novel from best-selling author Alice Munro, winn...)
The only novel from best-selling author Alice Munro, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Catching frogs, grazing knees, singing songs to save England from Hitler - that was childhood for Del Jordan, and now she's impatient for more. More than she can find in the encyclopedias sold by her mother, or in the half-understood innuendos dispensed by best friend Naomi, or in the whispers of boys during Friday night dances. Just like the girls in the movies, she wants to get started on real life. In her only novel, Alice Munro turns her eye to the frustrations, embarrassments, glee and bewilderment of adolescence, and to the brushes with sex, death, violence and birth that shape the lives of girls and women. "I still feel that Alice Munro is mine. I am the perfect audience for her brand of quiet, seething feminism." (Lena Dunham). "In Munro's work, nothing can be predicted. Emotions erupt. Preconceptions crumble. Surprises proliferate." (Margaret Atwood).
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( A divorced woman returns to her childhood home where sh...)
A divorced woman returns to her childhood home where she confronts the memory of her parents' confounding yet deep bond. The accidental near-drowning of a child exposes the fragility of the trust between children and parents. A young man, remembering a terrifying childhood incident, wrestles with the responsibility he has always felt for his younger brother. In these and other stories Alice Munro proves once again a sensitive and compassionate chronicler of our times. Drawing us into the most intimate corners of ordinary lives, she reveals much about ourselves, our choices, and our experiences of love.
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( Tio nyskrivna, utsökta noveller från en älskad författa...)
Tio nyskrivna, utsökta noveller från en älskad författare som nyligen återupptäckts av svenska läsare. Med klarsynt lätthet tar sig Alice Munro återigen an svåra händelser och känslor och sätter ord på de oförutsägbara sätt på vilka människan möter och bearbetar livets skeenden. I den långa titelnovellen följer vi den verklighetsbaserade huvudpersonen Sofia Kovalevskaja till Sverige, som är det enda land som vill anställa en kvinnlig matematiker. 2009 fick Alice Munro Man Booker International Prize, den finaste utmärkelse efter Nobelpriset som en författare kan få. Det internationella Bookerprisets jury framhåller i sin motivering Munros förmåga att förmedla djup och visdom i allt hon skriver. "Att läsa Alice Munro är att lära sig något varje gång som du aldrig tänkt på förut," skriver juryn. Utgiven av StorySide. Översatt av Rose-Marie Nielsen. Please note: This audiobook is in Swedish
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(Pub Date: 2013-12-05 Pages: 328 Language: Traditional Chi...)
Pub Date: 2013-12-05 Pages: 328 Language: Traditional Chinese Publisher: Trojans 2013 Nobel Prize winner in 2009 Booker Prize winner. The Kite Runner. Hosseini praised: The reading public underrated great novelist. 1Q84 Haruki Murakami personally translation. one of the 10 favorite novelist selfish
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Book annotation not available for this title. Title: La vida de las mujeres / Lives of Girls and Women Author: Munro, Alice/ Echevarria, Aurora (TRN) Publisher: Random House Mondadori Publication Date: 2012/10/18 Number of Pages: 372 Binding Type: PAPERBACK Library of Congress:
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When I was four and my daddy left, I cried, but I understood. He had become part of the Gone. Oney Judge is a slave. But on the plantation of Mount Vernon, the beautiful home of George and Martha Washington, she is not called a slave. She is referred to as a servant, and a house servant at that -- a position of influence and respect. When she rises to the position of personal servant to Martha Washington, her status among the household staff -- black or white -- is second to none. She is Lady Washington's closest confidante and for all intents and purposes, a member of the family -- or so she thinks. Slowly, Oney's perception of her life with the Washingtons begins to crack as she realizes the truth: No matter what it's called, it's still slavery and she's still a slave. Oney must make a choice. Does she stay where she is -- comfortable, with this family that has loved her and nourished her and owned her since the day she was born? Or does she take her liberty -- her life -- into her own hands, and like her father, become one of the Gone? Told with immense power and compassion, Taking Liberty is the extraordinary true story of one young woman's struggle to take what is rightfully hers.
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A New York Times Editors’ Choice Book 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 Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968–1994, Alice Munro makes lives that seem small unfold until they are revealed to be as spacious as prairies and locates the moments of love and betrayal, desire and forgiveness, that change those lives forever. A traveling salesman during the Depression takes his children with him on an impromptu visit to a former girlfriend. A poor girl steels herself to marry a rich fiancé she can’t quite manage to love. An abandoned woman tries to choose between the opposing pleasures of seduction and solitude. To read these stories is to succumb to the spell of a true narrative sorcerer, a writer who enchants her readers utterly even as she restores them to their truest selves.
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When I was four and my daddy left, I cried, but I understood. He had become part of the Gone. Oney Judge is a slave. But on the plantation of Mount Vernon, the beautiful home of George and Martha Washington, she is not called a slave. She is referred to as a servant, and a house servant at that -- a position of influence and respect. When she rises to the position of personal servant to Martha Washington, her status among the household staff -- black or white -- is second to none. She is Lady Washington's closest confidante and for all intents and purposes, a member of the family -- or so she thinks. Slowly, Oney's perception of her life with the Washingtons begins to crack as she realizes the truth: No matter what it's called, it's still slavery and she's still a slave. Oney must make a choice. Does she stay where she is -- comfortable, with this family that has loved her and nourished her and owned her since the day she was born? Or does she take her liberty -- her life -- into her own hands, and like her father, become one of the Gone? Told with immense power and compassion, Taking Liberty is the extraordinary true story of one young woman's struggle to take what is rightfully hers.
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Munro, Alice Ann was born on July 10, 1931 in Wingham, Ontario, Canada. Daughter of Robert Eric and Anne Clarke (Chamney) Laidlaw.
Bachelor, University Western Ontario, 1952. Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Western Ontario, 1976.
Established Munro Books, Victoria, 1963. Writer in residence University British Columbia & University Queensland, 1980.
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Author: (short story collections) Dance of the Happy Shades, 1968 (Governor General's award for fiction, Canada, 1968), Lives of Girls and Women, 1971 (Canada Booksellers Association International Book of Year, 1972), Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You, 1974, Who Do You Think You Are?, 1978 (Governor General's award for fiction, Canada, 1978), The Moons of Jupiter, 1982, The Progress of Love, 1986 (Governor General's award for fiction, Canada, 1986), Friend of My Youth, 1990 (Trillium Book award, 1991, Commonwealth Writers' prize, 1991), Open Secrets, 1994 (WH Smith award, 1995), Selected Stories, 1996, The Love of a Good Woman, 1998 (Giller prize, 1998, National Book Critics Circle award for fiction, 1998, Canada Booksellers Association Fiction Book of Year, 1999), Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, 2001, No Love Lost, 2003, Vintage Munro, 2004, Runaway, 2004 (Giller prize, 2004), The View from Castle Rock, 2006, Too Much Happiness, 2009. Contributor short stories to numerous periodicals.
Member of American Academy of Arts and Letters (foreign honorary member).
Married James Armstrong Munro, 1951 (divorced 1976). Children: Sheila, Andrea. Married Gerald Fremlin, 1976.
1 child Jenny.