Open Secrets - Alice Munro - 9780099459712

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

Open Secrets, Alice Munro's eighth book, consists of eight luminous and poetic stories, each one as rich as a novel. Ranging from the 1850s through two world wars to the present, and from Canada to Brisbane, the Balkans and the Somme, these dazzling stories reveal the secrets of unconventional women who refuse to be contained.

"Brilliant at evoking life's diversity and unpredictability, [Alice Munro is] an unrivalled chronicler of human nature" - Sunday Times

"A superb collection... Marriage, gambles, disappearances, motiveless vandalism - it is the stuff of unremarkable lives, conveyed in a remarkable fashion" - Independent

"Alice Munro excites the writer in me - there is something new to learn from her in every sentence" - A. S. Byatt

"Alice Munro's stories are miraculous" - Lucy Hughes-Hallet, Sunday Times

"Open Secrets by the wonderful Alice Munro, is a collection of short stories, written with exquisite style" - Joanna Trollope

"Alice Munro writes almost perfect stories: beautifully cadenced, both wildly funny and gravely sad... Like crumpled balls of paper, they unfold in our minds after reading them" - Elle

"The Great One" - Jonathan Franzen

"A book that dazzles with its faith in language and life" - New York Times

"She is our Chekhov, and is going to outlast most of her contemporaries" - Cynthia Ozick

**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**

Alice Munro was born in 1931 and is the author of thirteen collections of stories, most recently Dear Life, and a novel, Lives of Girls and Women. She has received many awards and prizes, including three of Canada's Governor General's Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, the WHSmith Book Award in the UK, the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for The Beggar Maid, and has been awarded the Man Booker International Prize 2009 for her overall contribution to fiction on the world stage, and in 2013 she won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages.

She lives in Port Hope, Ontario, near lake Ontario in Canada.