New Releases by Alice Munro

La gran autora canadiense nos ofrece Mi vida querida, una colección de cuentos en los que vemos a hombres y mujeres obligados a traficar con la duda, el dolor y la decepción sin más recursos que su humanidad. ¿Bastan un beso robado, un salto desde un tren en marcha, la sombra furtiva de una mujer, una borrachera de media tarde o las preguntas arriesgadas de una niña para conformar un mundo que tenga peso propio y cuente la vida entera? Si quien escribe es Alice Munro un simple adjetivo sirve para cruzar las fronteras de la anécdota y colocarnos en el lugar donde bullen los sentimientos y las emociones. Comienzos, finales, giros del destino... y de repente, cuando creíamos que el relato llegaría a su obvia conclusión, Munro nos invita a dar otra vuelta de tuerca que cambia el fluir de los acontecimientos y emociona al lector, mostrando hasta qué punto esa vida cotidiana que tanto nos cansa puede llegar a ser extraordinaria. Cierran el volumen unas páginas que Munro dedica a su propia infancia, unas notas espléndidas donde lo personal se funde con la ficción, pues, en palabras de la misma autora "la autobiografía vive en la forma, más que en el contenido". ENGLISH DESCRIPTION WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013 A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable Work of FictionA Best Book of the Year: The Atlantic, NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, Vogue, AV Club In story after story in this brilliant new collection, Alice Munro pinpoints the moment a person is forever altered by a chance encounter, an action not taken, or a simple twist of fate. Her characters are flawed and fully human: a soldier returning from war and avoiding his fiancée, a wealthy woman deciding whether to confront a blackmailer, an adulterous mother and her neglected children, a guilt-ridden father, a young teacher jilted by her employer. Illumined by Munro''s unflinching insight, these lives draw us in with their quiet depth and surprise us with unexpected turns. And while most are set in her signature territory around Lake Huron, some strike even closer to home: an astonishing suite of four autobiographical tales offers an unprecedented glimpse into Munro''s own childhood. Exalted by her clarity of vision and her unparalleled gift for storytelling, Dear Life shows how strange, perilous, and extraordinary ordinary life can be.

Lumen recupera una extraordinaria colección de cuentos de Alice Munro, la autora de Mi vida querida y ganadora del Premio Nobel de Literatura, donde la escritora explora el vínculo entre dos mujeres y su evolución a lo largo de los años. «¿Cómo lo hará Alice Munro? Lo que consigue parece magia». —Sara Mesa «Munro tiene una mente prodigiosa. Es precisa, natural y cuenta como nadie la interioridad y el fluir de vidas enteras en unas pocas páginas». —Rodrigo Muñoz Avia «Aprender a sobrevivir, a pesar de la cobardía y la cautela, de los sustos y la aprensión, no es lo mismo que ser desdichado. Y además es interesante». En esta serie de historias entrelazadas, Munro recrea el vínculo entre dos mujeres en el transcurso de casi cuarenta años: la pragmática, desconfiada y a veces un tanto vulgar Flo, y su hijastra, Rose, una chica torpe y tímida pero cuya ambición la empuja a dejar atrás sus raíces y emprender su propio camino. Cuento a cuento, pincelada a pincelada, la gran maestra del relato nos envuelve dentro de una narración que fluye como una novela y a la que consigue dotar de profunda emoción y trascendencia. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Born into the back streets of a small Canadian town, Rose battled incessantly with her practical and shrewd stepmother, Flo, who cowed her with tales of her own past and warnings of the dangerous world outside. But Rose was ambitious - she won a scholarship and left for Toronto where she married Patrick. She was his Beggar Maid, ''meek and voluptuous, with her shy white feet'', and he was her knight, content to sit and adore her. Alice Munro''s wonderful collection of stories reads like a novel, following Rose''s life as she moves away from her impoverished roots and forges her own path in the world.

ALICE MUNRO INÉDITA El aclamado primer libro de relatos de la Nobel de Literatura, ganador del Governor General’s Award 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. Un libro clave en la obra de Munro, inédito hasta hoy en castellano, que obtuvo el Governor General’s Award y la consagró como la gran narradora que estaba destinada a ser. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION 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." —The 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." —The Wall Street Journal

A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection With hardly any notice, foolish and plain housekeeper Johanna flees her employer and sets off to find the man she’s fallen in love with. Little does she know that her correspondence with him has been a complete fabrication, a cruel teenager’s idea of a practical joke. So, who will Johanna find when she steps off her train with the household furniture in tow? Alice Munro is the universally celebrated master of the contemporary short story, the Chekhov of our time. Nowhere are her powers better on display than in this exquisitely crafted story exploring the wonderful and unexpected places where love, or the illusion of it, can lead. This selection is the title story of Munro’s acclaimed collection, Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage and the basis of the 2013 film, Hateship Loveship. An ebook short.

From the 2013 Nobel laureate in Literature—and perhaps our most beloved author: 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.

Nobelistin ennen julkaisematonta tuotantoa Pitkään suomennettavaksi toivottu novellikokoelma on Alice Munroa parhaimmillaan: kuulasta mutta väkevää, julmaa mutta lohdullista. Kuolleesta äidistään uneksiva nainen. Syrjähypyn anatomia. Leski joka lähtee pieneen skotlantilaiskylään selvittämään miehensä menneisyyttä ja löytääkin uppo-oudon miehen sekä epämiellyttävän totuuden. Kymmenen tarinaa elämän tavallisesta tavattomuudesta, kymmenen helmeä joiden erheetön pinta voi muotoutua vain epätäydellisyyden puristuksessa, sisällään inhimillisyyden ikuinen rikka. Alice Munro (s. 1931) on aikamme tärkeimpiä kirjailijoita. Hän on ensimmäinen kanadalainen, jolle on myönnetty Nobelin kirjallisuuspalkinto (2013). Munro kirjoittaa eleettömiä, oivaltavia kertomuksia, jotka ovat keränneet valtaisan lukijapiirin.

Cinta. Rasa bersalah. Gairah. Kehilangan. Aib. Keterasingan. Perkara keseharian yang begitu dekat, tapi di tangan Munro, kehidupan paling sederhana sekalipun selalu berhasil diramu menjadi kisah yang memikat. Empat cerita penutup yang disebut Munro "terasa autobiografis" akan membawa kita menilik kilasan masa kecil Munro; sesuatu yang belum pernah diceritakan Munro sebelumnya. Dengan sentuhan khas Munro, cerita-cerita ini menarik kita masuk begitu dalam kekehidupan karakter-karakternya dan mengejutkan kita dengan perubahan yang tak terkira. Dipuji sebagai penulis dengan kejernihan visi dan kemampuan bercerita yang tak tertandingi, melaluiDear Life, Munro menunjukkan betapa sebuah kehidupan biasa bisa menjadi begitu aneh, berbahaya, dan tak terduga. [Mizan, Bentang Pustaka, Alice Munro, Nobel Sastra, Novel, Terjemahan, Indonesia]

Dans ce recueil de treize nouvelles, Alice Munro nous emporte avec ses personnages jusqu''aux moments charnières de leurs existences, où tout peut basculer : une mère perd la trace de son enfant, un soldat saute inopinément du train qui le ramène chez lui, une jeune professeur part enseigner dans un sanatorium reculé, une femme perdue se lie à un inconnu... Le hasard des rencontres, l''étrangeté des actes manqués, les coups funestes du destin : autant de lignes de force que Munro ausculte et nous restitue avec la grâce d''un " Tchekhov de notre temps ". Pour la première fois, elle se confie également sur sa propre vie dans une ultime nouvelle. Alice Munro est, plus que jamais, l''écrivain de l''âme humaine.

Novellesamling af Alice Munro, modtager af Nobels Litteraturpris 2013. I bogens titelnovelle kommer hele byen i fokus, da den lokale optiker dør: fra pubertetsdrengene, der finder liget, over manden, som måske dræbte ham, til kvinden, der må beslutte sig for, hvad hun vil stille op med sin viden. ”Som jeg før har sagt, er Munros noveller så fantastiske, fordi de rummer hele skæbner, der ellers kræver hver sin roman.” – A.S. Byatt

Historien om Rose er historien om en kvindes forsøg på at finde og acceptere sig selv. Hun har spillet mange roller i sit liv – men er det roller, hun selv har valgt? Har hun ikke blot altid været den, omgivelserne forventede, hun skulle være? Har hun nogen sinde været sig selv? Og hvem var hun egentlig? Det er hverdagsmennesker, Alice Munro skriver om, og hun har den sjældne evne at kunne kortlægge et helt menneskeliv, en hel skæbne i novellens korte form. At læse en novellesamling af Alice Munro er som at læse en række romaner. Ud fra en enkelt begivenhed i et menneskes liv, som viser sig at blive et vendepunkt, fx mødet med kærlighed eller utroskab, lærer læseren personen at kende til bunds; man har ikke brug for at vide mere.

Alice Munro - primeira autora de contos a vencer o Nobel de Literatura - revela o total domínio da forma breve e faz sua incursão na ficção autobiográfica, com quatro narrativas primorosas ambientadas na juventude. Os contos de Vida querida são ricos como romances - com personagens, tramas e vozes desenvolvidas em toda sua potencialidade -, mas, precisos como pede a tradição do gênero, prescindem de qualquer elemento que não seja essencial. O leitor, conduzido por narradores capazes de segurar a tensão do começo ao fim, se entrega a percursos surpreendentes, anunciados com sutileza e maestria em pistas esparsas. É o caso do conto que abre o livro, "Que chegue ao Japão": Greta se despede do marido e parte com a filha numa viagem de trem que acaba se tornando uma aventura conflituosa pelos caminhos do desejo feminino; em "Dolly", um casal de idosos decidido a acabar com a própria vida num gesto de cumplicidade e harmonia recebe uma visita inesperada do passado que irá abalar profundamente seus planos. Como nas demais coleções de contos da autora, mestre da forma breve, nos vemos diante de personagens que caminham nas beiradas da existência, arrancadas do cotidiano por golpes incisivos do destino e da loucura. Mas este Vida querida tem um diferencial que o coloca num nível novo; coroando uma carreira brilhante, a última parte do livro traz as quatro únicas narrativas autobiográficas já publicadas por Munro, que emprega toda a sua habilidade literária para refletir sobre o ato de narrar, a ficção e os temas que regem sua obra: memória, trauma, morte. Vida: vida.

A “wickedly funny” (Newsweek) collection of ten short stories from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro, “one of the most eloquent and gifted writers of contemporary fiction” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times). “Each of her collections demonstrates such linguistic skill, delicacy of vision, and . . . moral strength and clarity.”—Chicago Tribune A woman haunted by dreams of her dead mother. An adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends and the pain begins. A widow visiting a Scottish village in search of her husband’s past—and instead discovering unsetting truths about a total stranger. The miraculously accomplished stories in this collection not only astonish and delight, but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience. The mastery—the almost numinous ability to say the unsayable—makes Friend of My Youth a genuine literary event.

Eleven stunning stories that explore the most intimate and transforming moments of existence, from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro, “one of the foremost practitioners of the short story” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times). “Throughout this remarkable collection moments of insight flash from the pages like lightning, not necessarily providing answers—more like showing the way to new questions.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer 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 to the shaken mother the fragility between children and parents. A young man, remembering a terrifying childhood incident, wrestles with the responsibility he has always felt for his hapless younger brother. A man brings his lover on a visit to his ex-wife, only to feel unexpectedly closer to his estranged partner. 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.

A “masterful” (Houston Post) collection of stories from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro “A spellbinding tour through a world of love, menace, and surprise . . . [Munro] is a writer of enormous gifts and perception.”—Los Angeles Times The sisters, mothers and daughters, aunts, grandmothers, and friends in these thirteen stories, “a rich exploration of womanhood” (Ms.), shimmer with hope and love, anger and reconciliation, as they content with their histories and their present, and what they can see of the future. In her remarkable second collection, Alice Munro demonstrates the precise observation, straightforward prose style, and masterful technique hailed by John Updike, who wrote in the New York Times Book Review that “one must go back to Tolstoy and Chekhov . . . for comparable largeness.”

“An exhilarating collection” (The New York Times Book Review) of ten blended stories from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro “The rich texture of its narrative and the author’s graceful style make [The Beggar Maid] a considerable accomplishment.”—Joyce Carol Oates, Ms. In this vibrant series of interweaving stories, Alice Munro recreates the evolving bond—one that is both constricting and empowering—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—in spite of Flo’s ridicule and ghastly warnings—leaves the small town she grew up in to achieve her own equivocal success in the larger world.

Eleven “witty, subtle, [and] passionate” (The New York Times Book Review) stories from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro, “a true master of the form” (Salman Rushdie) “Alice Munro’s fine and intelligent stories are like Edward Hopper paintings, lit with a relentless clarity, and richly illuminating the perplexities of human connection, their possibilities and pain.”—Washington Post Book World In these piercingly lovely and endlessly surprising stories by one of the most acclaimed 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 anger, regret, and infinite compassion that communicate themselves to us with electrifying force.

Una colección de relatos de la autora que actualmente está considerada la maestra mundial en el género. En los diez relatos que componen Amistad de juventud se recrean los misterios que anidan en el centro de la experiencia humana. Múltiples vidas circulan por sus páginas, las vidas de hombres y mujeres que rememoran los deseos y los sueños que enterraron hace ya quizá 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. Reseñas: «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 páginas.» Antonio Muñoz Molina «Me habría gustado escribir cualquier cuento de Alice Munro. Me parece una maestra. Me ha ayudado a escribir sobre la maternidad, la amistad entre mujeres, las relaciones entre madres e hijas.» Elvira Lindo, La 2 de TVE

It presents 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. A wife and mother, whose spirit has been crushed, finds release from her extraordinary pain in the most unlikely place. The young victim of a humiliating seduction finds an unusual way to get her own back and move on. An older woman, dying of cancer, weaves a poisonous story to save her life. The long title story follows Sophia Kovalevsky, a late nineteenth-century Russian emigree and mathematical genius, as she takes a fateful winter journey that begins with a visit to her lover on the Riviera, and ends in Sweden, where she is a professor at the only university willing to hire a woman to teach her subject.

In her lengthy and fascinating introduction Margaret Atwood says “Alice Munro is among the major writers of English fiction of our time. . . . Among writers themselves, her name is spoken in hushed tones.” This splendid gift edition is sure to delight Alice Munro’s growing body of admirers, what Atwood calls her “devoted international readership.” Long-time fans of her stories will enjoy meeting old favourites, where their new setting in this book may reveal new sides to what once seemed a familiar story; devoted followers may even dispute the exclusion of a specially-beloved story. Readers lucky enough to have found her recently will be delighted, as one masterpiece succeeds another. The 17 stories are carefully arranged in the order in which she wrote them, which allows us to follow the development of her range. “A Wilderness Station,” for example, breaks “short story rules” by taking us right back to the 1830s then jumping forward more than 100 years. “The Albanian Virgin” destroys the idea that her stories are set in B.C. or in Ontario’s “Alice Munro Country.” And “The Bear Came Over the Mountain,” the story behind the film Away From Her, takes us far from the world of young girls learning about sex into unflinching old age. This is a book to read slowly, savouring each story. It deserves a place in every Canadian book-lover’s library.

My Best Stories is a dazzling selection of stories—seventeen favourites chosen by the author from across her distinguished career. The stories are arranged in the order in which they were written, allowing even the most devoted Munro admirer to discover how her work developed. "Royal Beatings" shows us right away how far we are from the romantic world of happy endings. "The Albanian Virgin" smashes the idea that all of her stories are set in B.C. or in Ontario''s "Alice Munro Country." "A Wilderness Station" breaks short story rules by transporting us back to the 1830s and then jumping forward more than a hundred years. And the final story, "The Bear Came Over the Mountain," which was adapted into the film Away from Her, leads us far beyond the turkey-plucking world of young girls into unflinching old age. Every story in this selection is superb. It is a book to read—and reread—very slowly, savouring each separate story. This collection of small masterpieces deserves a place in every book lover''s home.

In eight “riveting [and] lovely” (San Francisco Chronicle) stories, Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro stunningly explores the strange, often comical desires of the human heart. “Superb . . . dazzling . . . Munro’s feel for her own characters is as pure as Chekhov’s.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) “Munro is indisputably a master. . . . A better book of stories can scarcely be imagined.”—The Washington Post Book World Mining the silences and dark discretions of provincial life, the eight tales in The Love of a Good Woman lay bare the seamless connections and shared guilt that bind even the loneliest of individuals. A stroke victim expresses his deepest secret to a young bride in what may be the last act of intimacy left in him. A daughter confronts her father with the open secret of his life. And in the riveting title story, a selfless nurse tending a dying patient discovers the social utility of lies. Sparklingly detailed, unwaveringly courageous, these are stories that extend the limits of fiction.

Elles partent. Fuguent. S''enfuient. S''en vont voir ailleurs. Elles : des femmes comme les autres. Par usure ou par hasard, un beau matin, elles quittent le domicile familial (ou conjugal), sans se retourner. En huit nouvelles, Alice Munro met en scène ces vies bouleversées. Avec légèreté, avec férocité, elle traque les marques laissées sur les visages par le temps, les occasions perdues, les petits arrangements que l''on croyait provisoires.

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.

A true literary event, the publication of this generous selection of stories--drawn from Alice Munro''s seven collections spanning 30 years--gives enormous reading pleasure while it confirms Munro''s place in the front ranks of today''s writers of fiction. These 28 stories about lovers, parents and children, sex, seduction, marriage, murder, dreams, and death are pure essence of Munro.

"Lives of Girls and Women" is the intensely readable, touching, and very funny story of Del Jordan, a young woman who journeys from the carelessness of childhood through an uneasy adolescence in search of love and sexual experience. As Del dreams of becoming famous, suffers embarrassment about her mother, endures the humiliation of her body''s insistent desires, and tries desperately to fall in love, she grapples with the crises that mark the passage to womanhood. Penguin Group (Canada) has published this edition of "Lives of Girls and Women" in a traditional Penguin design in celebration of being named 2008 Publisher of the Year.