Alice Munro
Collections of short stories of noted Canadian writer Alice Munro of life in rural Ontario include
Dance of the Happy Shades
(1968) and
Moons of Jupiter
(1982); for these and vivid novels, she won the Nobel Prize of 2013 for literature. People widely consider her premier fiction of the world. Munro thrice received governor general's award. She focuses on human relationships through the lens of daily life. People thus refer to this "the Canadian Chekhov."(Arabic: أليس مونرو)(Persian: آلیس مانرو)(Russian Cyrillic: Элис Манро)(Ukrainian Cyrillic: Еліс Манро)(Bulgarian Cyrillic: Алис Мънро)(Slovak: Alice Munroová)(Serbian: Alis Manro)
Algo que quería contarte
Alice Munro
«¿Cómo lo hará Alice Munro? Lo que consigue parece magia», escribía recientemente Sara Mesa en El País. Por su parte, Elvira Lindo confesaba que le habría gustado escribir cualquiera de sus cuentos: «Me parece una maestra. Me ha ayudado a escribir sobre la maternidad, la amistad entre mujeres, las relaciones entre madres e hijas» (La 2TV).
Una vez más, Munro se revela como esa escritora «extraordinaria, admirable, de primerísima fila» (Javier Marías, El Mundo ) en este libro de relatos inédito para los lectores en castellano. Unos relatos que «tienen la misma densidad y alcance de la novela. He tratado alguna vez de descubrir cómo lo hace —recordaba Julian Barnes en The New Yorker—, pero no lo he conseguido, y me alegro de ese fracaso porque nadie puede ni debe escribir como la magnífica Alice Munro». Esta «escritora maravillosa» (Joyce Carol Oates), cuyo «trabajo ya era revolucionario cuando lo descubrí, y sigue siéndolo ahora» (Jhumpa Lahiri), vuelve a asombrarnos aquí con su peculiar disección de la naturaleza humana.
A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994
Alice Munro
From the 2013 Nobel laureate in Literature--and perhaps our most beloved a beautifully repackaged reissue of Alice Munro's Selected Stories (1968-1994), now retitled A Wilderness Station
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. 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. To read these stories--about a traveling salesman and his children on an impromptu journey; an abandoned woman choosing between seduction and solitude--is to succumb to the spell of a writer who enchants her readers utterly even as she restores them to their truest selves.
Brinnande livet
Alice Munro
Brinnande livet består av fjorton nyskrivna berättelser. Här återfinns allt det som gjort Alice Munro till vår tids mest älskade novellförfattare: smärtan, värmen, kärleken och den sällsamma förmågan att skildra de korta ögonblick som får hela livet att ta en ny vändning.
Carried Away: A Personal Selection of Stories
Alice Munro
Carried Away is a dazzling selection of stories–seventeen favorites chosen by the author from across her distinguished career.Alice Munro has been repeatedly hailed as one of our greatest living writers, a reputation that has been growing for years. The stories brought together here span a quarter century, drawn from some of her earliest books, The Beggar Maid and The Moons of Jupiter, through her recent best-selling collection, Runaway. Here are such favorites as “Royal Beatings” in which a young girl, her father, and stepmother release the tension of their circumstances in a ritual of punishment and reconciliation; “Friend of My Youth” in which a woman comes to understand that her difficult mother is not so very different from herself; and “The Albanian Virgin," a romantic tale of capture and escape in Central Europe that may or may not be true, told by an elderly married woman to her younger friend who is on a desperate adventure of her own..Munro’s incomparable empathy for her characters, the depth of her understanding of human nature, and the grace and surprise of her narrative add up to a richly layered and capacious fiction. Like the World War I soldier in the title story, whose letters from the front to a small-town librarian he doesn’t know change her life forever, Munro’s unassuming characters insinuate themselves in our hearts and take permanent hold.
Carried Away, Alice Munro's Best and My Best Stories contain the same 17 works: Royal beatings -- The beggar maid -- The turkey season -- The moons of Jupiter -- The progress of love -- Miles City, Montana -- Friend of my youth -- Meneseteung -- Differently -- Carried away -- The Albanian virgin -- A wilderness station -- Vandals -- Hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage -- Save the reaper -- Runaway -- The bear came over the mountain.
Chi ti credi di essere?
Alice Munro
«Chi ti credi di essere?» Troppe volte Rose si è sentita rivolgere questa domanda nel paesino di West Hanratty in cui è cresciuta. Prima fra tutti dalla sua matrigna Flo, donna pratica e un po' volgare, meschina e generosa insieme, l'incarnazione di quella realtà provinciale da cui Rose vorrebbe e sa di non poter fuggire. Per quanto studi, per quanto si ribelli, per quanto scappi. Come dieci capitoli di un anomalo romanzo di formazione, i racconti di questa formidabile raccolta delineano con sapienza il personaggio di Rose, privilegiando il ruolo che il rapporto con la matrigna Flo ha avuto nel complesso definirsi della sua identità. Quarant'anni e dieci racconti in sequenza perché Rose arrivi a capire chi davvero crede di essere, chi davvero è.
Dance of the Happy Shades
Alice Munro
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.
Contents
- Walker Brothers Cowboy
- The Shining Houses
- Images
- Thanks for the Ride
- The Office
- An Ounce of Cure
- The Time of Death
- Day of the Butterfly
- Boys and Girls
- Postcard
- Red Dress -1946
- Sunday Afternoon
- A Trip to the Coast
- The Peace of Utrecht
- Dance of the Happy Shades
Dance of the Happy Shades: And Other Stories (Vintage International)
Alice Munro
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 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 JournalFrom the Trade Paperback edition.
Danza de las sombras
Alice Munro
La magia de Alice Munro, que han invocado tantos escritores y críticos literarios, con la que ha llenado de luz las vidas, los sentimientos y los diálogos más cotidianos, y que ha hecho de ella la mejor cuentista de la literatura contemporánea, ganadora del Nobel y del Booker, ya estaba totalmente afianzada en el primero de sus catorce libros de relatos: Danza de las sombras.
Quince historias #algunas de marcado carácter autobiográfico# que revelan los múltiples matices de la naturaleza humana: una joven descubre cuánto ignora sobre su padre cuando lo acompaña a hacer su ruta de reparto como vendedor de la Walker Brothers; una mujer casada regresa a casa tras la muerte de su madre e intenta compensar a su hermana por el tiempo que ha pasado cuidando de aquella; el público de un recital de piano infantil recibe una lección sorprendente cuando una estudiante «singular» transmite una emoción inesperada al interpretar una pieza
Das Bettlermädchen
Alice Munro
Es gibt keinen besseren Einstieg in die wunderbare Welt der Alice Munro als ›Das Bettlermädchen, so Jonathan Franzen.
Eines der Hauptwerke der Literaturnobelpreisträgerin Alice Munro endlich wieder lieferbar – in neu durchgesehener Übersetzung
Munro entfaltet, einzigartig in ihrem Werk, in diesem Band die Geschichte zweier Frauen, Flo und Rose, über mehrere Jahrzehnte: Rose wächst bei ihrer Stiefmutter Flo in einer kanadischen Kleinstadt auf. Als sie den Muff des Alltags nicht mehr erträgt, zieht sie in die Welt, fängt an zu studieren, heiratet, hat Affären und macht Karriere beim Fernsehen. Flo bleibt in der Provinz zurück und vertreibt sich die Zeit mit Bingo-Spielen. Mit ihrem unvergleichlichen Gespür für die Herzensbildung ihrer Figuren hat Alice Munro mit dem ›Bettlermädchen‹ ein frühes Meisterwerk geschaffen.
Dear Life
Alice Munro
Suffused with Munro's clarity of vision and her unparalleled gift for storytelling, these tales about departures and beginnings, accidents and dangers, and outgoings and homecomings both imagined and real, paint a radiant, indelible portrait of how strange, perilous, and extraordinary ordinary life can be.
Alice Munro's peerless ability to give us the essence of a life in often brief but always spacious and timeless stories is once again everywhere apparent in this brilliant new collection. In story after story, she illumines the moment a life is forever altered by a chance encounter or an action not taken, or by a simple twist of fate that turns a person out of his or her accustomed path and into a new way of being or thinking. A poet, finding herself in alien territory at her first literary party, is rescued by a seasoned newspaper columnist, and is soon hurtling across the continent, young child in tow, toward a hoped-for but completely unplanned meeting. A young soldier, returning to his fiancée from the Second World War, steps off the train before his stop and onto the farm of another woman, beginning a life on the move. A wealthy young woman having an affair with the married lawyer hired by her father to handle his estate comes up with a surprising way to deal with the blackmailer who finds them out.
While most of these stories take place in Munro's home territory - the small Canadian towns around Lake Huron - the characters sometimes venture to the cities, and the book ends with four pieces set in the area where she grew up, and in the time of her own childhood: stories "autobiographical in feeling, though not, sometimes, entirely so in fact." A girl who can't sleep imagines night after wakeful night that she kills her beloved younger sister. A mother snatches up her child and runs for dear life when a crazy woman comes into her yard.
Demasiada felicidad
Alice Munro
Recent cover edition here
Una joven madre recibe consuelo inesperado por la muerte de sus tres hijos, otra mujer reacciona de forma insólita ante la humillación a la que la somete un hombre; otros cuentos describen la crueldad de los niños y los huecos de soledad que se crean en el día a día de la vida de pareja. Como broche de oro, en el último cuento acompañamos a Sofía Kovalevski, una matemática rusa que realmente vivió a mediados del siglo XIX, en su largo peregrinaje a través 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.
Contents:
Dimensiones --
Ficción --
El filo de Wenlock --
Pozos profundos --
Radicales libres --
Cara --
Algunas mujeres --
Juego de niños --
Madera --
Demasiada felicidad.
Demasiada Felicidade
Alice Munro
Dez contos inéditos da vencedora do Man Booker International Prize de 2009.
Na primeira história, uma jovem mãe é libertada, por um volte-face surpreendente, do sofrimento de ter perdido os seus três filhos. Noutra história, uma rapariga reage a um caso humilhante de sedução com uma solução astuta ainda que pouco louvável. Outros contos revelam as zonas de sombra de um casamento, a crueldade insuspeita das crianças ou a maneira como a cara desfigurada de um rapaz é o motor de tudo o que há de bom e de mau na sua vida. E na longa história que dá título ao livro, acompanhamos Sophia Kovalevsky — emigrante russa e matemática de finais do século XIX — numa viagem que empreende no Inverno através da Europa, até chegar à Suécia onde encontra finalmente uma universidade disposta a contratar uma mulher para leccionar Matemática.
Alice Munro transforma uma vez mais acontecimentos e emoções complexos em histórias que iluminam a maneira imprevisível como os homens e as mulheres acomodam e muitas vezes transcendem o que acontece nas suas vidas.
Die Liebe einer Frau : drei Erzählungen und ein kurzer Roman
Alice Munro
Drei Erzählungen und ein kurzer Roman: In der Welt von Alice Munro ist der beste Weg nicht unbedingt die kürzeste Entfernung zwischen zwei Punkten. Ihre neunte überragende Sammlung von Kurzgeschichten, Die Liebe einer Frau, hat erneut das westliche Kanada als Handlungsort, und das Thema ist klassisch für Munro: Geheimnisse, Liebe, Betrug und das ganz normale Leben. Aber wie wir es von dieser Meisterin der Kurzgeschichte bereits kennen, ist der Weg, den sie nimmt, alles andere als normal. Die überwältigende Titelgeschichte ist dafür ein hervorragendes Beispiel. Sie ist eine Erzählung in vier Teilen und beginnt mit dem Ertrinkungstod eines Optikers in einer Kleinstadt. Die Geschichte wird ausgeweitet und befasst sich zuerst mit den Jungen, die die Leiche entdeckt hatten, und dann mit einer boshaften Frau, die im Sterben liegt, und ihrer jungen Pflegeschwester. Wessen Geschichte ist es nun? Nicht die des Optikers, das steht fest -- obwohl dessen Tod sie zusammenhält. Der Effekt ist auch nicht unbedingt "Rashomon"-mäßig, obwohl jeder Teil ihn aus einem anderen Blickwinkel betrachtet. Die Liebe einer Frau ist statt dessen ein gründliches und umfassendes Porträt des Kleinstadtlebens, wie man es sich nur vorstellen kann, mit all seinen Spannungen, Betrügereien und unfreiwilligen Bindungen. Innerhalb seiner 75 Seiten fängt es eine Welt ein, die geräumiger ist als die der meisten Romane.
Dolly
Alice Munro
På ålderns höst börjar 83-åriga Franklin och hans 71-åriga livspartner planera sin sorti. De känner sig nöjda med det liv de levt tillsammans, lyckligt och stilla. Men oense om ett avskedsbrev ska skrivas eller inte skjuter de fram sitt gemensamma självmord på obestämd tid. Plötsligt en dag så ringer försäljaren Gwendolyn på dörren och parets tillvaro förändras i ett andetag. Hur väl känner vi de människor vi delar vårt liv med och hur påverkar våra val de vi älskar?
Alice Munro skriver lika skickligt som subtilt om de mänskliga relationernas underliggande kaos och om den ensamhet som på ett eller annat sätt drabbar oss alla. Dolly är ett utmärkt exempel på varför Munro 2013 förärades med Nobelpriset i litteratur, med en motivering som löd ”Den samtida novellkonstens mästare”.
Han kom ut igen och ropade till oss att bilverkstan hade stängt.
Det var inget annat att göra än att be henne stanna och äta middag och övernatta. Hon ursäktade sig tusen gånger men blev lite mer avspänd när hon väl satt ner med ännu en cigarett. Jag började förbereda middagen. Franklin hade gått för att byta om. Jag frågade om hon ville ringa hem.
Hon sa ja, det var bäst.
Egy jóravaló nő szerelme
Alice Munro
A szerelem áll Alice Munro nyolc történetének középpontjában: az, hogy mi mindent meg nem tesznek érte az emberek, hogyan viselkednek, ha megszerzik, akire vágytak, hogyan hagyják, hogy elsodorja őket a szenvedély, és milyen árat kell fizetniük érte.
Ahogy már megszoktuk tőle, aprólékosan boncolja az emberi kapcsolatokat, finoman érezteti, milyen bonyolult, érdekes és kiszámíthatatlan az elme működése, és hogy igazabb és árnyaltabb képet kapunk mindarról, ami velünk történt, ha néhány évtized távlatából elemezzük az eseményeket.
Hősei: a lányok, a nők és az asszonyok Kanada kisebb és nagyobb szigetein, városaiban titkok, hazugságok és elfojtások között élik mindennapjaikat, próbálják megérteni jelenüket, egykori döntéseiket, melyek következményeit egy életen át viselik. Személyiségük varázsa jórészt abból a bátorságból ered, amellyel képesek őszintén szembenézni a múltjukkal, képesek átélni a változás és az elmúlás érzését, hogy előbb vagy utóbb, így vagy úgy valamiféle derűs nyugalommal megbékéljenek sorsukkal.
„Munro történetei a tekintetben is kivételesek, hogy a novella szűk terében teljes sorsokat követnek végig. A hétköznapok nagy krónikása: étkezésről, pénzzavarról, öltözködésről, öregedésről, szexről, gyerekszülésről és nevelésről senki más nem ír úgy, mint ő.” A. S. Byatt
Falsos Segredos
Alice Munro
Falsos Segredos traz oito contos que se passam em Carstairs, no Canadá, em diferentes momentos do século XX. O clima da cidade pequena, os costumes provincianos e a proximidade entre as pessoas perpassam as narrativas, nas quais a autora explora o impacto de silêncios, maus entendidos e boas intenções nas relações humanas.
Amigas que influenciam em decisões umas das outras, homens com dificuldades de fazer escolhas, pessoas que desconfiam de seus vizinhos. Munro parte de situações corriqueiras para investigar as motivações das pessoas, e como elas lidam com seus desejos e inseguranças.
Embora os contos não se relacionem diretamente, a ambientação faz com que as histórias se tangenciem. Personagens que protagonizam um conto são lembrados em histórias que se passam décadas depois. Munro usa essas ressonâncias para mostrar como a convivência entre as pessoas cria falsos segredos, que não mas não são tão bem guardados quanto parecem.
Family Furnishings
Alice Munro
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.”
Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014
Alice Munro
From the Nobel Prize winner — " our greatest contemporary short story writer" ( USA Today) — comes a selection of her most accomplished and powerfully affecting short stories from the last two decades.
Here is a companion volume to A Wilderness 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 ending a marriage (“The Children Stay”). And in stories that Munro has described as “closer to the truth than usual”—”Dear Life,” “Working for a Living,” and “Home”—we glimpse the author’s own life.
Subtly honed with her hallmark precision, grace, and compassion, these stories illuminate the quotidian yet astonishing particularities 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.
Felicidade Demais
Alice Munro
Felicidade Demais reúne dez contos de Alice Munro, protagonizados por personagens femininas que vivem situações de grande sedução e violência. São mulheres de idades e ocupações diversas, mas todas elas, a certa altura da vida, deparam com acontecimentos que mudam o rumo de suas vidas.
O conto que dá título ao livro é um relato de ficção inspirado em uma personagem real: a russa Sophia Kovalevsky, que viveu na segunda metade do século XIX e destacou-se pelo pioneirismo na matemática. Ela foi uma das primeiras mulheres admitidas como professora universitária, em Estocolmo, além de jornalista de divulgação científica e escritora de ficção. A narrativa se concentra nos dias que antecedem a morte de Sophia, com flashbacks para contar seus envolvimentos amorosos e sua relação com a família da irmã, casada com um revolucionário da Comuna de Paris.
Nos contos da autora, camadas narrativas se sobrepõem, o passado e a memória atuam no presente e conduzem a situações-limite. Mas mesmo quando a doença toma conta e o fim se anuncia, a promessa de felicidade, ainda que efêmera e ilusória, estará sempre no horizonte de realização.
För mycket lycka
Alice Munro
För mycket lycka består av tio nyskrivna hudnära berättelser. Alice Munros humanism är unik, hon har hyllats världen över för sin förmåga att beskriva livsöden med en ojämförlig värme.
Alice Munro växte upp i Wingham i den kanadensiska provinsen Ontario. Hon har skrivit tolv novellsamlingar, varav fyra tidigare utgivits på svenska: Jupiters månar, Kärlekens vägar, Äpplen eller apelsiner och Kärlek, vänskap, hat. Under våren 2009 gav Bokförlaget Atlas som en del av återlanseringen av hennes författarskap ut en pocketutgåva av Kärlek, vänskap, hat. Samma år kom samlingen Nära hem, med ett urval av noveller ur de tre första översättningarna. För mycket lycka är Alice Munros senaste bok. Alice Munros första novellsamling kom ut 1968 och under sin författarkarriär har hon mottagit ett antal fina priser och lovordats av kritiker världen över.
Friend Of My Youth
Alice Munro
In Friend of my Youth , Alice Munro once again dazzles with her finely nuanced depictions of the human heart. These ten stories bring to life characters in a remarkable variety of times and places. As always, Alice Munro's people are as real and recognizable as ourselves.
Fugitiva
Alice Munro
“Uma história de ninar, em que todos os detalhes eram importantes e precisavam ser acrescentados a cada vez, e isso com relutância convincente, timidez, risinho, que safada, que safada.” Trecho do conto que dá título à Fugitiva, coletânea de narrativas de Alice Munro, essa frase, calculada e ao mesmo tempo natural, sincera, sem amarras, poderia representar bastante, como um objeto visto por lente de aumento, a prosa da autora canadense: histórias de ninar, cheias de detalhes pessoais e próprios de intimidades, de momentos em que se está livre do olhar de um terceiro.
Vencedora do Nobel de Literatura de 2013, Alice Munro apresenta em Fugitiva as obscuras e frágeis fundações de relacionamentos, de descobertas juvenis ou tardias, de enfrentamento ou aceitação de mistérios no universo feminino. As mulheres de Munro, e especialmente neste livro, se encontram em constante questionamento: a idade, o trágico e o belo de correr atrás de um homem que acaba-se de encontrar no trem, a insegurança e o desejo em forças opostas na relação entre marido e esposa.
Cada conto se desdobra em movimentos que geram uma reação inesperada, como nas histórias de ninar, em que tudo reside calmamente até que surge o elemento desequilibrador. Que, mais do que pôr a própria narrativa em xeque, deixam cada personagem fora de órbita, atraídos e repelidos por forças que nem eles, tampouco o narrador, sabem a origem. O cenário, apesar de ser sempre o do norte canadense, se transporta para aquela esfera universal que faz de uma obra literária um clássico atemporal.
A tradução, de Pedro Sette-Câmara, buscou preservar o estilo conciso de Munro, tipificado por um realismo cru, mas subjetivo e sugestivo. As frases, conhecidas por serem intercaladas de intervenções narrativas que deixam rastros ao longo da jornada, ganham um ritmo acertado em português. Períodos pontuados milimetricamente, acompanhados por uma câmera bem de perto. “Eric ganhava a vida pescando camarão, e há muito tempo fazia isso. Ele tinha sido aluno de medicina. Isso acabou porque ele fez um aborto numa amiga (não numa namorada).” Poucos autores hoje têm esse domínio e sabem usar parênteses como o exemplo citado.
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories
Alice Munro
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.
Himmel und Hölle
Alice Munro
In neun Geschichten, die vordergründig alltäglich-harmlos wirken wie ein Kinderspiel, lässt Alice Munro rätselvolle Beziehungen und verdrängte Schuld aufblitzen, die heimlich weiterwirken. Sie erzählt von bestürzend kühnen Momenten des Ausbrechens aus dem eigenen Leben: das ist der Stoff, aus dem ihre Erzählungen sind.
Die Geschichten entführen den Leser an jenen besonderen Ort, der als Alice Munros ureigenes Territorium gilt - den Ort, wo eine unerwartete Wendung des Geschehens den Bogen eines ganzen Lebens zum Aufleuchten bringen kann.
How I Met My Husband
Alice Munro
How I Met My Husband is a short story written by Alice Munro, first published in 1974 as a part of her collection Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You.
Il percorso dell'amore
Alice Munro
Pieno di trabocchetti e inganni della memoria è il «percorso dell'amore»: nel primo racconto di questa raccolta di Alice Munro, una donna divorziata torna a visitare la casa che fu dei genitori; le si presenta il vivido ricordo di un tentativo di suicidio di sua madre, e quello altrettanto nitido di una scena in cucina: sua madre che brucia una quantità di soldi nella stufa sotto lo sguardo accondiscendente del padre... forse ricordi veri, forse scene immaginate, che la conducono però alla scoperta, molto reale, del legame profondo che univa i genitori. Pieno di trabocchetti e inganni è anche, di solito, il percorso della scrittura di Alice Munro, famosa per le improvvise svolte che riesce a impartire alle storie che racconta. Quella che inizia come una descrizione, o rievocazione, di una tranquilla scena familiare, prende poi la piega inaspettata del dramma, della tragedia: a volte rimossa, riposta in un angolo della memoria, altre volte ossessivamente presente a impedire ogni percorso di vita.
In fuga
Alice Munro
«Quando leggiamo la Munro, tutto ci sembra incantevole: ma lo sfondo, vasto e intermittente, che si avverte in ogni riga, è pieno di minacce - morti sinistre, destini incomprensibili, dolori che nessuno potrebbe sopportare, disastri, irruzioni di qualcosa che assomiglia all'amore, le tremende ferite che ci infliggono i morti; o, al contrario, beffe crudeli che realizzano i piani di colei che, forse, porta il nome di Provvidenza. Non sappiamo cosa la Munro pensi della vita: suppongo che accetti religiosamente tutto ciò che accade, e nutra una "ferrea devozione" verso quello che vede; eppure cerchi, con calma, lentamente e segretamente, di mettere ordine nell'esistenza. Sebbene da nessuna parte si intraveda una luce, l'arte è ancora, per lei, un timido tentativo di mettere ordine nelle cose scritte e, dunque, anche in quelle che sono accadute, accadono e accadranno nel mondo». (Pietro Citati)
«Nonostante tutto, le ragazze fragili e intelligenti che hanno visto svanire i propri talenti, le signore cariche d'esperienze acuminate come lance mortali, sulle quali Alice Munro concentra l'attenzione, vogliono continuare a vivere. Questo ce le fa amare. La bellezza dei loro mondi interiori, ne siamo certi, è un fuoco che non smetterà mai di ardere e prosperare». (Eraldo Affinati)
In questa raccolta della Munro, contrariamente a quanto succede nelle altre, ci sono tre racconti tra loro collegati, che hanno come protagonista la stessa donna, Juliet. I racconti sono separati da bianchi abissi in cui il tempo e i sentimenti precipitano per poi riaffiorare dando vita a situazioni che costituiscono storie a sé stanti. È come se le storie della Munro tutte insieme narrassero un lungo romanzo-mosaico in cui ciascuna tessera è la vita di una donna e del paesaggio umano e naturale che la circonda.
Julieta: Three Stories That Inspired the Movie
Alice Munro
The Three Stories that Inspired the MovieWith a foreword by Pedro AlmodóvarAlice Munro is cherished for her exquisite, affecting meditations on the human heart. In these three linked stories, “Chance,” “Soon,” and “Silence”—which, together, inspired Pedro Almodóvar’s film Julieta—her virtuosic talents are once again on display. The stories follow a schoolteacher named Juliet as she is swept up by meeting an older man on a train and starting an affair; later, visiting her parents as a young mother; and later still, searching for contact with her estranged daughter. As with all of Munro’s characters, Juliet radiates warmth, dignity, and hope, even as she is unflinching in the face of betrayal and loss. In Munro’s hands, her journey is as surprising, extraordinary, and precious as life itself.
Julkisia salaisuuksia
Alice Munro
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
Las lunas de Júpiter
Alice Munro
Los cuentos de Las lunas de Júpiter indagan en la vida de mujeres atrapadas en la rutina, invisibles, abnegadas y aparentemente conformadas con ser un mero satélite del marido o el padre enfermo al que cuidan, pero esperando, siempre, encontrar un instante de pasión, por breve que sea, que devuelva un poco de brillo a su existencia. Munro nos ofrece un catálogo de mujeres al borde del abismo: frías, infieles, insensatas o desesperadas, pero todas tocadas por un pálido rayo de esperanza.
La vida de las mujeres
Alice Munro
En el centro de esta deliciosa novela hallamos a Del Jordan, una chiquilla que vive con sus padres en el pueblo de Jubilee y nos narra su día a día, su relación con la familia, los vecinos y los amigos. A través de sus ojos observamos el mundo y compartimos el provecho que saca de lo que ve. Del compadece la poquedad del padre, admira el arrojo de la madre y comprende que tarde o temprano llega el momento en que hay que elegir entre una risueña mediocridad -hogar, iglesia, matrimonio, hijos- y otras opciones más interesantes y arriesgadas. Ese descubrimiento es también el de la vocación literaria, una suerte de llamada, de deber para con el mundo.
Le lune di Giove
Alice Munro
In queste storie Alice Munro racconta di donne alle prese con una relazione sentimentale difettosa - una relazione, piú precisamente, il cui immancabile difetto si va in quel momento manifestando, o si è già manifestato - e del loro tentativo di affrontarla senza illusioni ma contemporaneamente senza cinismo, con una conoscenza antica che però non vuole rinunciare al privilegio di farsi sorprendere appena un po'. Donne caparbie, spiritose, amare, sempre lucidissime, creature di un'autrice che non svia mai lo sguardo da ciò che pulsa e vive.
Liebes Leben
Alice Munro
Niemand erzählt eindringlicher davon, wie es wäre, ein neues Leben zu beginnen, als die große kanadische Autorin Alice Munro.
»Dir diesen Brief schreiben ist wie einen Zettel in eine Flasche stecken und hoffen, er wird Japan erreichen«, schreibt Greta in der ersten Erzählung und schickt diese Zeilen an Harris, den Zeitungsreporter, der sie nach einer Party fast geküsst hätte. Aber eben nur fast.
Auf wenigen Seiten kondensiert Alice Munro die geheimen Träume ihrer Figuren. Vierzehn neue brillante Erzählungen, die mit einem furiosen Finale enden: vier Geschichten, in denen sie so persönlich wie nie (»die ersten und die letzten Dinge, die ich über mein Leben zu sagen habe«) von sich selbst erzählt.
Lives of Girls and Women
Alice Munro
The 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 1940s.
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 younger brother. When she begins spending more time in town, she is surrounded by women -- her mother, an agnostic, opinionated woman who sells encyclopedias to local farmers; her mother's boarder, the lusty Fern Dogherty; and her best friend, Naomi, with whom she shares the frustrations and unbridled glee of adolescence.
Through these unwitting mentors and in her own encounters with sex, birth, and death, Del explores the dark and bright sides of womanhood. All along she remains a wise, witty observer and recorder of truths in small-town life. The result is a powerful, moving, and humorous demonstration of Alice Munro's unparalleled awareness of the lives of girls and women.
Nemico, amico, amante...
Alice Munro
Nove racconti perfetti: la musica del quotidiano, il gioco smorzato dei sentimenti e delle allusioni. Da Flannery O'Connor a Henry James, da Chechov a Tolstoj, non c'è un autore di racconti al quale Alice Munro non sia stata paragonata. Ma la sua capacità di dipanare in un lampo l'irriducibile complessità della natura umana è incomparabile. Questi racconti possiedono la straordinaria capacità di trascinare il lettore nei meandri di una memoria che non è la sua per risvegliare emozioni che sono di tutti. La scrittura della Munro è aperta, lussureggiante, fitta di accadimenti e particolari necessari. Il paesaggio canadese, la natura selvaggia del Nord Ovest partecipano alle emozioni dei personaggi, integrano la loro storia, determinano le loro decisioni.
Nyílt titkok: Nyolc történet
Alice Munro
Ebben a meglepetésekkel teli nyolc történetben Alice Munro, a novella műfajának élő klasszikusa lélegzetelállítóan biztos kézzel örökíti meg azokat a pillanatokat, amikor valaki lerázza magáról a konvenciókat, a múltat, a végzetet.
A Nyílt titkok megszállottan levelező, rejtélyes és nyughatatlan hősnői minduntalan azzal szembesülnek, milyen megsemmisítő erővel lobbanhat fel újra meg újra a régi szerelem. Alice Munro a tőle megszokott humorral, bölcsességgel és szomorúsággal mesél az élet furcsaságairól: eltűnt iskolás lányokról, a kanadai határvidékre kiközvetített árvaházi menyasszonyról, egy magányosan élő, különc nőről, aki egy felülmúlhatatlanul furcsa vacsoravendégség során egy Ausztráliából érkezett, gazdag, egzotikus kérőre tesz szert, holott ez egyáltalán nem állt szándékában. Ki gondolná, hogy egy, a Balkánon fogságba esett nő romantikus története milyen felszabadító hatással lehet egy másik nőre, aki a férje és a szeretője elől menekül napjaink Kanadájában? Vagy hogy milyen elfojtott traumák vezethetnek egy fiatal házaspár vandalizmusához?
Alice Munro szokatlan sorsú szereplői különös helyet foglalnak el maguknak az olvasó emlékezetében, ugyanolyan nehéz őket száműzni onnan, mint a gyerekkorból ismerős hóbortos, arccsipkedő rokonokat.
Odio, amistad, noviazgo, amor, matrimonio
Alice Munro
Nueve historias que arrastran al lector a ese territorio conocido como el país de Alice Munro, donde un giro imprevisto en los acontecimientos o un recuerdo súbito pueden iluminar la parábola entera de una vida. Nueve historias personales que podrían ser las de cualquier lector, aunque que no por ello resultan menos ricas y complejas. Traducidos a una veintena de idiomas, varios volúmenes de relatos y una novela han otorgado a la canadiense Alice Munro «todos los números para llevarse el título de mejor escritor o escritora de ficción americana en activo», en palabras de Jonathan Franzen.
Ódio, Amizade, Namoro, Amor, Casamento
Alice Munro
As nove histórias reunidas em Ódio, amizade, namoro, amor, casamento, funcionam como retratos. Retratos de um momento da vida das personagens – e esse momento pode ser uma despedida ou um reencontro; retratos de um traço particular dessas pessoas, apreendido no instante exato de uma má escolha ou uma boa intenção; retrato de uma porção da memória que, por vezes, é buscada com um grande esforço e, em outros, se esvai na cabeça fraca da idosa ou nas lembranças levianas da menina que não reteve mais que um sentimento de excitação de todo um verão. Esses contos, se são sobre o cotidiano, não são nada banais. O primeiro, que dá nome à obra, relata a história de Johanna Parry, uma mulher simples e sem ambição que, por um engano, se coloca diante de um futuro com que nunca sonhou; em Ponte flutuante, Jinny recupera-se de grave enfermidade enquanto se deixa seduzir por um adolescente, em momento de inigualável poesia; Mobília de família resgata, aos olhos de uma escritora, a personalidade de uma tia que foi definitiva na sua infância; no belíssimo Conforto, Nina se despede do marido, na busca da compreensão profunda de seu ato de adeus; o encontro das memórias de duas personagens acerca de um verão, seus dramas posteriores e o fundo em comum que os une é tristemente o cenário de Urtigas; em Coluna e vigas, uma jovem mãe aprende a lidar com expectativas alheias sobre si mesma, e a importância da negociação; O que é lembrado é um comovente e sarcástico exercício de memória.
Open Secrets: Stories
Alice Munro
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.
Carried away --
A real life --
The Albanian virgin --
Open secrets --
The Jack Randa hotel --
A wilderness station --
Spaceships have landed --
Vandals
Queenie
Alice Munro
When Queenie elopes with a recently widowed neighbour her family are uniformly shocked, and a window on adult life and relationships is opened for her step-sister. A summertime stay with the newlyweds in Toronto yields further insight into the lives of couples, but also causes confusion.
Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage.
Runaway
Alice Munro
The incomparable Alice Munro’s bestselling and rapturously acclaimed Runaway is a book of extraordinary stories about love and its infinite betrayals and surprises, from the title story about a young woman who, though she thinks she wants to, is incapable of leaving her husband, to three stories about a woman named Juliet and the emotions that complicate the luster of her intimate relationships. In Munro’s hands, the people she writes about–women of all ages and circumstances, and their friends, lovers, parents, and children–become as vivid as our own neighbors. It is her miraculous gift to make these stories as real and unforgettable as our own.
Runaway: As seen on BBC Between The Covers
Alice Munro
**AS SEEN ON BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS****Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**The matchless Munro makes art out of everyday lives in this exquisite short story collection. Here are men and women of wildly different times and circumstances, their lives made vividly palpable by the nuance and empathy of Munro's writing. Runaway is about the power and betrayals of love, about lost children, lost chances. There is pain and desolation beneath the surface, like a needle in the heart, which makes these stories more powerful and compelling than anything she has written before.Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009.
Runaway: Stories
Alice Munro
The incomparable Alice Munro’s bestselling and rapturously acclaimed Runaway is a book of extraordinary stories about love and its infinite betrayals and surprises, from the title story about a young woman who, though she thinks she wants to, is incapable of leaving her husband, to three stories about a woman named Juliet and the emotions that complicate the luster of her intimate relationships.
In Munro’s hands, the people she writes about–women of all ages and circumstances, and their friends, lovers, parents, and children–become as vivid as our own neighbors. It is her miraculous gift to make these stories as real and unforgettable as our own. (back cover)
Runaway
Chance
Soon
Silence
Passion
Trespasses
Tricks
Powers
Selected Stories
Alice Munro
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 her Selected Stories, 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. To read these stories--about a traveling salesman and his children on an impromptu journey; an abandoned woman choosing between seduction and solitude--is to succumb to the spell of a writer who enchants her readers utterly even as she restores them to their truest selves.
Walker brothers cowboy --
Dance of the happy shades --
Postcard --
Images --
Something I've been meaning to tell you --
The Ottawa Valley --
Material --
Royal beatings --
Wild swans --
The beggar maid --
Simon's luck --
Chaddeleys and Flemings --
Dulse --
The turkey season --
Labor Day dinner --
The moons of Jupiter --
The progress of love --
Lichen --
Miles City, Montana --
White dump --
Fits --
Friend of my youth --
Meneseteung --
Differently --
Carried away --
The Albanian virgin --
A wilderness station --
Vandals.
Selected Stories: Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (Vintage Classics)
Alice Munro
**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**This first-ever selection of Alice Munro's stories sums up her genius. Her territory is the secrets that cackle beneath the façade of everyday lives, the pain and promises, loves and fears of apparently ordinary men and women whom she renders extraordinary and unforgettable.
Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You
Alice Munro
In 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 histories and their present, and what they can see of the future.
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013
Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You: 13 Stories
Alice Munro
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 histories and their present, and what they can see of the future.From the Trade Paperback edition.
The Bear Came Over the Mountain
Alice Munro
A reluctant decision is made to put Fiona in a home catering for those suffering from Alzheimer's. When her husband, Grant, comes to see her, he is confused and dismayed to learn that she has struck up a close relationship with a fellow patient.
Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage.
The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose
Alice Munro
In this series of interweaving stories, Munro recreates the evolving bond between two women in the course of almost forty years. One is Flo, practical, suspicious of other people's airs, at times dismayingly vulgar. The other is Rose, Flo's stepdaughter, a clumsy, shy girl who somehow leaves the small town she grew up in to achieve her own equivocal success in the larger world.
The Love of a Good Woman
Alice Munro
**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**
Alice Munro has a genius for entering the lives of ordinary people and capturing the passions and contradictions that lie just below the surface. In this brilliant new collection she takes mainly the lives of women - unruly, ungovernable, unpredictable, unexpected, funny, sexy and completely recognisable - and brings their hidden desires bubbling to the surface. The love of a good woman is not as pure and virtuous as it seems: as in her title story it can be needy and murderous. Here are women behaving badly, leaving husbands and children, running off with unsuitable lovers, pushing everyday life to the limits, and if they don't behave badly, they think surprising and disturbing thoughts.
The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro (1998-10-20)
Alice Munro
All of these eight wonderful stories are about what people will do for love, and the unexpected routes their passion will force them to take.An old landlady in Vancouver who alarms the just-married narrator with her prim advice about married life – and “the peculiar threat” of a china cabinet that must be washed once a month – is shown to have conspired when young in a crime of passion. A young mother, at the mercy of the “radiant explosion” that comes when she thinks of her secret life, abandons her baby and four-year old to be with her lover in the story “The Children Stay.” A gruff old country doctor in the 1960s is discovered by his daughter to be helping desperate women, his “special patients.” An impetuous young woman meets a visiting Indian student and conceives on a train from Vancouver to Toronto because of “the fact that you couldn’t get condoms around the Calgary station, not for love or money.” An Ontario farm wife’s affair drives her husband to commit a murder; its discovery, years later, will act as a negotiating point for a new, presumably satisfactory, marriage.The book is clear-eyed about the imperfections of marriage, the clutter of our emotional lives, and the impermanence of “Not that that was the end. For we did make up. But we didn’t forgive each other.” Even the shared memories of earlier times prove to be a minefield, and many of the stories track the changes that time brings over generations to families, lovers, and even to friends who share old, intimate secrets about “the prostration of love.”As always these stories by Alice Munro are shot through with humour, and are as rich as novels. As always the characters in the stories are easily, sometimes uncomfortably, recognizable as people like us. One quote summarizes the delightful surprises that await the “Did you ever think that people’s lives could be like that and end up like this? Well, they can.”From the Hardcover edition.
The Moons of Jupiter
Alice Munro
THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREThe characters who populate an Alice Munro story live and breathe. Passions hopelessly conceived, affections betrayed, marriages made and broken: the joys, fears, loves and awakenings of women echo throughout these twelve unforgettable stories, laying bare the unexceptional and yet inescapable pain of human contact.
The Progress of Love
Alice Munro
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2013
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.
The View from Castle Rock
Alice Munro
A powerful new collection from one of our most beloved, admired, and honored writers.
In stories that are more personal than any that she’s written before, Alice Munro pieces her family’s history into gloriously imagined fiction. A young boy is taken to Edinburgh’s Castle Rock, where his father assures him that on a clear day he can see America, and he catches a glimpse of his father’s dream. In stories that follow, as the dream becomes a reality, two sisters-in-law experience very different kinds of passion on the long voyage to the New World; a baby is lost and magically reappears on a journey from an Illinois homestead to the Canadian border.
Other stories take place in more familiar Munro territory, the towns and countryside around Lake Huron, where the past shows through the present like the traces of a glacier on the landscape and strong emotions stir just beneath the surface of ordinary comings and goings. First love flowers under the apple tree, while a stronger emotion presents itself in the barn. A girl hired as summer help, and uneasy about her “place” in the fancy resort world she’s come to, is transformed by her employer’s perceptive parting gift. A father whose early expectations of success at fox farming have been dashed finds strange comfort in a routine night job at an iron foundry. A clever girl escapes to college and marriage.
Evocative, gripping, sexy, unexpected—these stories reflect a depth and richness of experience. The View from Castle Rock is a brilliant achievement from one of the finest writers of our time.
Too Much Happiness: Stories
Alice Munro
In these ten stories, 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.
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.
Dimensions --
Fiction --
Wenlock edge --
Deep-holes --
Free radicals --
Face --
Some women --
Child's play --
Wood --
Too much happiness
Tricks: Acht Erzählungen
Alice Munro
Tricks, acht meisterliche Erzählungen von Alice Munro: Geschichten von Frauen und Mädchen, von Bedrohungen, geheimen Sehnsüchten und Leid, von rätselhaften Mustern in vermeintlich unscheinbaren Leben - Geschichten von bestürzender Intensität und Dramatik.
Imponierend bekräftigt 'Tricks' Alice Munros geradezu legendären Ruf als Meisterin der subtilen Erkundung weiblicher Seelenregungen. Dabei erweist sich das besondere Gespür der Autorin für den geheimen, unerschließbaren Wesenskern ihrer Figuren, jenen rätselhaft-dunklen Bereich, wo Selbstbetrug und Lebenslügen, gefährliche Illusionen und Tricksereien ihren Ausgang nehmen und wo all jenes seinen Grund in uns hat, das stärker ist als der eigene Wille.
Troppa felicità
Alice Munro
Felicità? Troppa felicità? Nel triplice omicidio di Dimensioni o in quello di Radicali liberi? La felicità, in queste nuove storie di Alice Munro, sta in un inedito potere creativo, nel potenziale di spregiudicatezza e libertà della vecchiaia, quando si può guardare ancora più a fondo nel vortice della vita. E se poi la felicità è troppa, restano le storie, dove «perfino un'epidemia a Copenaghen può trasformarsi nel flagello cantato in una ballata» e dove «idee e fatti assumono una forma nuova, appaiono attraverso lamine di limpida intelligenza»: il prisma della scrittura di una Alice Munro sempre più consapevole e mai così grande.
Utvalgte noveller
Alice Munro
Alice Munro fikk Nobelprisen i litteratur 2013. Her er et utvalg av hennes beste noveller. Alice Munro fra Wingham i Canada, født 1931, fikk Nobelprisen i litteratur 2013. Hun regnes som en av verdens fremste novellekunstnere, og har mottatt en lang rekke priser og utmerkelser. Forfatteren Jonathan Franzen har en gang skrevet at Munro har en nærmest patologisk empati med sine karakterer, og John Updike har uttalt at man må helt tilbake til Tsjekhov for å finne en novelleforfatter av Alice Munros kaliber. Sikkert er det at Alice Munros noveller sjelden etterlater leseren upåvirket. Utvalget til denne samlingen er gjort av Trude Rønnestad. «Å lese Alice Munros noveller er en påminnelse om hvor oppsiktsvekkende få bøker det er som virkelig gjør inntrykk på en. Selv om jeg gikk til hennes nye bok med store forventninger, sitter jeg forbløffet tilbake.» Terje Holtet Larsen, Dagbladet «Det er vel bare å kjøpe inn alle novellesamlingene til Alice Munro og dele ut i øst og vest. Hver av novellene hennes er som en roman, ja, et helt liv. Dette er bøker man kan leve lenge på.» Brit Bildøen på spørsmålet «Hvilke bøker gir du bort til jul?» i Dagbladet «Munro greier på en eller annen måte ofte å fange inn et helt livsløp uten at de blir lange. Hun er en mester til å beskjære. Hun formidler mye større volumer av innsikt og av levd liv enn kortformatet skulle tilsi.» Knut Faldbakken, VG
Vidas de meninas e mulheres
Alice Munro
O único romance da vencedora do prêmio Nobel Alice MunroVidas de meninas e mulheres é, como Alice Munro costumava dizer, “autobiográfico na forma, mas não nos fatos narrados”. A obra retrata o processo de amadurecimento de Del Jordan, uma menina que vive em uma pequena cidade na zona rural do Canadá, na década de 1940.Del passou sua infância na fazenda de raposas do pai, onde suas companhias mais frequentes eram um excêntrico solteirão, amigo de longa data da família, e seu rude irmão mais novo. Porém, à medida que cresce, ela passa a conviver mais de perto com diferentes mulheres que marcarão para sempre sua vida.Entre elas estão sua mãe, uma vendedora de enciclopédias cuja opinião forte e ideias agnósticas chocam os vizinhos; a voluptuosa Fern Dougherty, que aluga um quarto na casa da mãe de Del; e sua melhor amiga e também adolescente, Naomi. Del divide com essas mulheres suas angústias, descobertas e seus primeiros encontros com o sexo, o nascimento e a morte.Com esse delicado e profundo romance, o único de sua carreira literária, Munro — que é considerada mestre da narrativa breve contemporânea — narra de forma magistral as dores e as dádivas do amadurecimento e retrata como ninguém o lado belo e sombrio de se tornar mulher.
Vintage Munro: Nobel Prize Edition (Vintage International)
Alice Munro
Here is the perfect introduction to Alice Munro's brilliant, revelatory short stories in which she unfolds the wordless secrets that lie at the center of human experience. Vintage Munro includes stories from throughout her career: The title stories from her collections The Moons of Jupiter; The Progress of Love; Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage; “Differently,” from Selected Stories; “Carried Away,” from Open Secrets; and "In Sight of the Lake," from Dear Life.
Who Do You Think You Are?
Alice Munro
Rose and her stepmother, Flo, live in Hanratty-across the bridge from the "good" part of town. Rose, alternately fascinated and appalled by the rude energy of the people around her, grows up nursing her hope of outgrowing her humble beginnings and plotting an escape to university. Rose makes her escape and thinks herself free. But Hanratty's question-Who Do You Think You Are?-rings in her ears during her days in Vancouver, mocks her attempts to make her marriage successful, and haunts her new career. In these stories of Rose and Flo, Alice Munro explores the universal story of growing up-Rose's struggle to accept herself tells the story of our lives.
Wozu wollen Sie das wissen?: Elf Geschichten aus meiner Familie
Alice Munro
Das persönlichste Buch von Alice Munro
Alice Munro überrascht mit ihrer neuen Erzählungssammlung. Mit ihren Geschichten begibt sie sich in ihre eigene Familiengeschichte, bis zurück zu William Laidlaw im Schottland des frühen 17. Jahrhundert, als es noch Feen und Geister gab. Von dort aus nach Kanada, mit Andrew und den anderen, die meistens Schäfer, später Farmer waren, und den zahlreichen Tanten, Annie, Jenny, Mary - lauter einfachen, aber eigenwilligen Menschen, Käuzen mit seltsamen Lebensgeschichten und sehr viele von ihnen mit einer auffälligen Liebe zum schriftlichen Wort. Ob sie nun Wetternotizen machen, Erinnerungen aufschreiben oder sich richtige Geschichten ausdenken die Tradition des Schreibens ist tief in Munros Familientradition verwurzelt. Das persönlichste Buch von Alice Munro.
Zu viel Glück
Alice Munro
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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Alice Munro
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