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Beschreibung

In small towns and far-flung cities, ordinary moments carry the weight of secrets that can alter a life.

Ranging from the late nineteenth century to the 1990s and from rural Ontario to the Somme and the Balkans, Open Secrets is a series of interconnected stories that follow eight women at turning points in their lives. A missed letter, a sudden disappearance, an unexpected act of betrayal. Each event ripples outward, reshaping marriages, friendships and the stories people tell about themselves.

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Man Booker International Prize, Open Secrets is a landmark collection in which private lives unfold against the sweep of twentieth-century history.

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

In small towns and far-flung cities, ordinary moments carry the weight of secrets that can alter a life.

Ranging from the late nineteenth century to the 1990s and from rural Ontario to the Somme and the Balkans, Open Secrets is a series of interconnected stories that follow eight women at turning points in their lives. A missed letter, a sudden disappearance, an unexpected act of betrayal. Each event ripples outward, reshaping marriages, friendships and the stories people tell about themselves.

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Man Booker International Prize, Open Secrets is a landmark collection in which private lives unfold against the sweep of twentieth-century history.

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

Über den Autor
Alice Munro was born in 1931 and was the author of thirteen collections of stories and the novel, Lives of Girls and Women. She 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 Who Do You Think You Are? (previously published as The Beggar Maid), and was 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. Alice Munro died in 2024.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 294 S.
ISBN-13: 9780099459712
ISBN-10: 009945971X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Munro, Alice
Hersteller: Vintage Publishing
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 195 x 128 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Alice Munro
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.06.2009
Gewicht: 0,246 kg
Artikel-ID: 101476803

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