Bücher von Alice Munro

**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**Alice Munro captures the essence of life in her brilliant new collection of stories.

This first-ever selection of Alice Munro's stories sums up her genius. Her territory is the secrets that cackle beneath the facade of everyday lives, the pain and promises, loves and fears of apparently ordinary men and women whom she renders extraordinary and unforgettable.

Brilliantly paced, lit with sparks of danger and underlying menace, these are dazzling, provocative stories about Svengali men, and radical women who outmanoeuvre them, about destructive marriages and curdled friendships, about mothers and sons, about moments which change or haunt a life. Alice Munro takes on complex, even harrowing emotions and events, and renders them into stories that surprise,

The only novel from bestselling author Alice Munro, winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureCatching frogs, grazing knees, singing songs to save England from Hitler - that was childhood for Del Jordan, and now she's impatient for more.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREIn these stories lives come into focus through single events or sudden memories which bring the past bubbling to the surface.

Nobelpreis für Literatur 2013 Alice Munro ist die Meisterin der Ambivalenz. Komik und Tragik, scheinbar Alltägliches und Schicksalhaftes oszilliert in ihren Geschichten in immer neuer Intensität, die den Leser nie unberührt lässt. Ein >literarisches Wunder»Bei Alice Munro gelangt man lesend wie Hand in Hand mit ihr zu der Erkenntnis eines Augenblicks; das ist eine merkwürdige und eher seltene Form von Gemeinsamkeit mit einem Autor. Ich lese - das bedeutet, ich lebe mich in das Leben eines anderen Menschen ein.« Judith Hermann

Nobelpreis für Literatur 2013 Alice Munro vermag es wie niemand sonst, so viel Realität, so viel Verstrickung auf so wenigen Seiten unterzubringen. Sie weiß ihre Figuren auf so knappem Raum so präzise auszuloten, den Leser so geschickt über das scheinbar Alltägliche mitten ins Dunkle, Geheimnisvolle der menschlichen Psyche zu stoßen. Ihre Storys sind Kammerspiele des Gefühls, spektakulär im scheinbar Unspektakulären - sprachliche Meisterstücke. Alice Munro hält alles in der Schwebe, erlöst uns nicht vorschnell aus unserer Unsicherheit, sondern webt uns ein in ihr erzählerisches Netz: ihr einziges Zuhause.

Einmal mehr schafft Alice Munro das, was nur die wenigsten Autoren vermögen: Uns Figuren zu schenken, die so lebendig sind, dass wir für einen Moment ganz in ihr Leben tauchen. Da ist Janet, die ihren alten Vater ins Krankenhaus bringen muss und unverhofft Trost in einem Planetarium findet. Ein junges Mädchen, das auf einer Truthahnfarm anheuert. Und eine Frau, die dem überheblichen Gerede ihres Mannes begegnet, indem sie ihm eine Schüssel Zitronenbaiser an den Kopf wirft. Sie alle blicken zurück und blicken nach vorn, stolz und manchmal zweifelnd - und wie Munro behutsam davon erzählt, ist einzigartig.Mit >Die Jupitermonde»Geschichten voller Zauber!« Publishers Weekly

Nobelpreis für Literatur 2013Endlich wieder lieferbar!In einer der Geschichten aus >Glaubst du, es war Liebe?Ein Band mit Geschichten, wie sie nur die Nobelpreisträgerin Alice Munro schreiben kann - über Frauen, die Vieles verlieren und Großes gewinnen: ein Leben.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZEIN LITERATURE 2013The only novel from Alice Munro-award-winning author of The Love of a Good Woman--is an insightful, honest book, "e;autobiographical in form but not in fact,"e; that chronicles a young girl's growing up in rural Ontario in the 1940's. 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, opinionted 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.

From the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literatureand one of our most beloved writersa 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 experiencefrom 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 themwe 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.'

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZEIN LITERATURE 2013Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the greatest modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions. ';In Munro's hands, as in Chekhov's, a short story is more than big enough to hold the worldand to astonish us again and again.' Chicago Tribune In an unbroken procession of brilliant, revelatory short stories, Alice Munro has unfolded the wordless secrets that lie at the heart of all human experience. She has won three Governor General's Literary Awards in her native Canada, as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award. 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, and ';Carried Away,' from Open Secrets.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREThese are beguiling, provocative stories about manipulative men and the women who outwit them, about destructive marriages and curdled friendships, about mothers and sons, about moments which change or haunt a life.

From her ancestors' view from Edinburgh's Castle Rock in the eighteenth century to her parents' thwarted ambitions in Ontario, and her own awakening in 1950s Canada, Munro effortlessly weaves fact and myth to create an epic story of past and present, proving that fiction has much to tell us about life.

**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**The matchless Munro makes art out of everyday lives in this exquisite short story collection.

Here are women behaving badly, leaving husbands and children, running off with unstuitable lovers, pushing everyday life to the limits, and if they don't behave badly, they think surprising and disturbing thoughts.

**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**Alice Munro's territory is the farms and semi-rural towns of south-western Ontario. 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.