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Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

The first-ever selection of one of the world´s greatest living short-story writers, winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009.

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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 fa‡ade of everyday lives, the pain and promises, loves and fears of apparently ordinary men and women whom she renders extraordinary and unforgettable.

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"Munro is a great realist, and her powers come from her sense of the way in which communities - especially small, socially anxious, limited ones - construct and guard their reality." James Wood London Review of Books

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Alice Munro, geboren 1931 in Ontario, gehört zu den bedeutendsten Autorinnen der Gegenwart. Mit ihrem umfangreichen erzählerischen Werk ist sie Bestsellerautorin in ihrem Heimatland Kanada und der gesamten angelsächsischen Welt. 2009 wurde sie mit dem "Man Booker International Prize" ausgezeichnet. 2013 erhielt Alice Munro den "Literatur-Nobelpreis".

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