Bøger af Alice Munro

13 lange noveller – hver af dem som en lille intens roman – af den amerikanske novellekunst suveræne mester Alice Munro. Det er fremragende portrætter af søstre, mødre, døtre, tanter, bedstemødre og veninder og af mændene i deres liv. Helt almindelige hverdagsliv, fra første verdenskrig til nutiden, hvor de store katastrofer, den store kærlighed eller det store savn, den smerte, skam – eller kedsomhed, som ethvert liv rummer, uden at vi måske lægger mærke til det eller nogensinde taler om det, belyses i glimt så præcise, at det gibber i én af genkendelse. Og af fryd over Munros skarpe og dybe menneskekundskab og hendes mesterlige evne til at sætte ord på. Med forord af Ida Jessen.

Ti nye fortællinger af novellens mester: Den canadiske forfatter Alice Munro.I FOR MEGET LYKKE giver Alice Munro endnu engang læseren en håndfuld komplekse historier om hverdagsmennesker, der hver for sig åbenbarer en hel verden, og som  - med Munros vanlige autoritet for at bearbejde sit stof – kaster lys over de uforudsigelige måder, hvorpå mænd og kvinder forholder sig til deres tilværelse. Indlæst af Karen Abrahamsen 2015.

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.

I ni noveller skildrer Munro mennesker i konflikt mellem tradition og fornyelse, mellem det hjemlige og ubekendte, mellem tryghed og frihed. I titelnovellen bryder den ensom Johanna ud af sin vante hverdag som husholderske for den aldrende Mr. McCauley for selv at skabe fornyelse i sit liv. Hun har i smug korresponderet med Mr. McCauleys svigersøn – faren til barnebarnet Sabitha, som bor hos dem efter moderens død. Men Johanna udsættes for en grusom spøg, og brevene fra faren er fabrikerede af Sabitha og veninden Edith. Johanna drager nu ud i verden for at opsøge faren som aftalt i brevene, og udfordrer dermed sin skæbne ved at forlade det trygge og hjemlige – men på et falsk grundlag.Alice Munro indfanger usentimentalt menneskets individuelle karakteristika og tegner sine karakterer så stærkt og medrivende op, at de efter blot få siders læsning lever videre i læserens bevidsthed længe efter, Munro har sat sit sidste punktum. Så følg Jonathan Safran Foers opfordring i New York Times Book Review: ”Alice Munro er den nordamerikanske skønlitterære samtidsforfatter, som kan gøre krav på at være den bedste: (…) Læs Munro! Læs Munro!” Fjendskab, Venskab, Ægteskab", fra 2001, er oversat til dansk af Gudrun Jessen og Ida Jessen.Indlæst af Maria Garde 2015.

"Livet" består af fjorten tidløse og livskloge fortællinger fra Nobelprismodtageren i litteratur Alice Munro. Samlingen slutter med en kvartet af tekster, hvor Munro for første gang fortæller om sin egen barndom.

**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.

”Alice Munro er den nordamerikanske skønlitterære samtidsforfatter, som kan gøre krav på at være den bedste … Væk er noget helt specielt … Væk er så god at jeg ikke vil snakke om det her. At citere yder ikke bogen retfærdighed, og det gør sammendrag heller ikke. Der er kun det at læse, som er retfærdigt i forhold til bogen … Og det bringer mig tilbage til den enkle opfordring, jeg begyndte med: Læs Munro! Læse Munro!”-  Jonathan Safran Foer, New York Times Book Review I Alice Munros ni noveller møder vi kvinder i alle aldre og omstændigheder. Titelnovellen handler om en ung kvinde, som – til trods for at hun ønsker det – ikke formår at forlade sin mand. I en anden novelle er det en ung kvinde fra landet, som planlægger at komme så langt væk som muligt via et job i hotelbranchen, og som pludselig forstår, at hun er endt på et vildspor. Tre historier handler om den samme kvinde, Juliet, som bevæger sig gennem dramatiske stadier af sit liv.Med en særlig empati og skarpsindighed skaber Munro novellefigurer lige så levende og håndgribelige, som var de os selv – eller vores naboer. Hendes historier handler om kærlighed og svig mellem mænd og kvinder, forældre og børn og mellem venner.Væk er oversat af forfatteren Ida Jessen i samarbejde med Gudrun Jessen.Indlæst af Maria Stokholm 2015.

Novellix – Stor litteratur i et lille formatDette er en æske med fire fortællinger om livets store spørgsmål – om frihed kontra ensomhed, om livsvalg, og døden som banker på, om kærlighed og ægteskab, og om hvem der egentlig har retfærdigheden på sin side. Fire forfattere fremviser den særegne fortællekunst, som har indbragt dem hver især Nobelprisen i litteratur – fire noveller, som er helt igennem lysende eksempler på kraften og storheden i det korte format. Her finder du store læseoplevelser, som bliver hængende længe efter…

De otte noveller i OFFENTLIGE HEMMELIGHEDER beskriver en række mennesker i den lille canadiske by Carstairs i første halvdel af vort århundrede. Vi møder en række personer, som hver især har deres forventninger til livet og en mening om, hvor lykken findes. Men forventningerne er ofte for store, livet udvikler sig anderledes, og så må man prøve at finde lykken under de givne vilkår. Det kan lade sig gøre.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 betragtes som en af vor tids allerstørste forfattere og har senest modtaget Nobelprisen i litteratur.

A New York Times Editors' Choice BookSpanning 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 A Wilderness Station:Selected Stories, 19681994, 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. A traveling salesman during the Depression takes his children with him on an impromptu visit to a former girlfriend. A poor girl steels herself to marry a rich fiance she can't quite manage to love. An abandoned woman tries to choose between the opposing pleasures of seduction and solitude. To read these stories is to succumb to the spell of a true narrative sorcerer, a writer who enchants her readers utterly even as she restores them to their truest selves.

Featuring an early collection of stories, this book presents the works of a well known fiction writer.

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.

**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**These dazzling and utterly satisfying stories explore varieties and degrees of love - filial, platonic, sexual, parental and imagined - in the lives of apparently ordinary folk.

Genudgivelse i paperback. 'Forunderlig er kærligheden' indeholder elleve historier, der på hver sin måde kan siges at rumme essensen af hele Munros forfatterskab. Titelnovellen i samlingen er desuden en af Munros egne favorithistorier, og her vender hun tilbage til temaet om tid, og hvordan vi laver om på vores fortid, efterhånden som vi bliver ældre.

Noveller. 7 kvinders individuelle historier fra de sidste 75 år berører vigtige temaer både i kvindefrigørelsen og i ægteskabet og kærlighedens rammer.

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

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 Journal

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013This acclaimed, bestselling collection also contains the celebrated stories that inspired the Pedro Almodóvar film Julieta. 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.

"Aprender a sobrevivir, a pesar de la cobardâia y la cautela, de los sustos y la aprensiâon, no es lo mismo que ser desdichado. Y ademâas es interesante (S1 (B. En esta serie de historias entrelazadas, Munro recrea el vâinculo entre dos mujeres en el transcurso de casi cuarenta aänos: la pragmâatica, desconfiada y a veces un tanto vulgar Flo, y su hijastra, Rose, una chica torpe y tâimida pero cuya ambiciâon la empuja a dejar atrâas sus raâices y emprender su propio camino. Cuento a cuento, pincelada a pincelada, la gran maestra del relato nos envuelve dentro de una narraciâon que fluye como una novela y a la que consigue dotar de profunda emociâon y trascendencia" -- from Amazon.com

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013Alice Munro mines her rich family background, melding it with her own experiences and the transforming power of her brilliant imagination, to create perhaps her most powerful and personal collection yet. A young boy, taken to Edinburgh's Castle Rock to look across the sea to America, catches a glimpse of his father's dream. Scottish immigrants experience love and loss on a journey that leads them to rural Ontario. Wives, mothers, fathers, and children move through uncertainty, ambivalence, and contemplation in these stories of hopes, adversity, and wonder. The View from Castle Rock reveals what is most essential in Munro's art: her compassionate understanding of ordinary lives.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013Carried Away is a dazzling selection of stories-seventeen favorites chosen by the author from across her distinguished career. With an Introduction by Margaret Atwood.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 but that nevertheless comforts the hearer, 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.

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.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013Alice Munro, who received the National Book Critics Circle Award for her latest collection of stories, The Love of a Good Woman, is widely acknowledged as a modern master of the short story. In this earlier collection, she demonstrates all of those strengths that have won her so many literary accolades.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.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013In eight new stories, a master of the form extends and magnifies her great themes--the vagaries of love, the passion that leads down unexpected paths, the chaos hovering just under the surface of things, and the strange, often comical desires of the human heart. Time stretches out in some of the stories: a man and a woman look back forty years to the summer they met--the summer, as it turns out, that the true nature of their lives was revealed. In others time is telescoped: a young girl finds in the course of an evening that the mother she adores, and whose fluttery sexuality she hopes to emulate, will not sustain her--she must count on herself. Some choices are made--in a will, in a decision to leave home--with irrevocable and surprising consequences. At other times disaster is courted or barely skirted: when a mother has a startling dream about her baby; when a woman, driving her grandchildren to visit the lakeside haunts of her youth, starts a game that could have dangerous consequences. The rich layering that gives Alice Munro's work so strong a sense of life is particularly apparent in the title story, in which the death of a local optometrist brings an entire town into focus--from the preadolescent boys who find his body, to the man who probably killed him, to the woman who must decide what to do about what she might know. Large, moving, profound--these are stories that extend the limits of fiction.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers-the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize. With clarity and ease, Alice Munro once again renders complex, difficult events and emotions into stories about the unpredictable ways in which men and women accommodate and often transcend what happens in their lives. In the first story a young wife and mother, suffering from the unbearable pain of losing her three children, gains solace 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 tales uncover the "deep-holes" in a marriage, the unsuspected cruelty of children, and, in the long title story, the yearnings of a nineteenth-century female mathematician.