In her latest collection of stories, Munro evokes the devastating power of old love suddenly recollected, in tales that resonate with sorrow, humor, and wisdom, and confirm her reputation as a living master of the genre.
Open Secrets is a book that dazzles with its faith in language and in life.-- New York Times Book Review.
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.
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.
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE(R) IN LITERATURE 2013 In these eight tales, Munro evokes the devastating power of old love suddenly recollected.
Dazzles with its faith in language and in life.--New York Times Book Review.
In her latest collection of stories, Munro evokes the devastating power of old love suddenly recollected, in tales that resonate with sorrow, humor, and wisdom, and confirm her reputation as a living master of the genre