Carried Away

Resumen del libro

Carried Away is a dazzling selection of stories seventeen favorites chosen by the author from across her distinguished career.

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 Love of a Good Woman, in which, when an old crime resurfaces, a woman has to choose whether to believe in the man she intends to marry.

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.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Alice Munrox{0026}lt;/B creció en Wingham (Ontario) en el seno de una familia de granjeros y estudió en la Universidad de Western Ontario. Es autora de catorce volúmenes de relatos, varias antologías y una novela. Sus cuentos han aparecido en revistas como x{0026}lt;I The New Yorkerx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Atlantic Monthly x{0026}lt;/I ox{0026}lt;I The Paris Reviewx{0026}lt;/I y han sido traducidos a trece idiomas.x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P A lo largo de su dilatada trayectoria ha recibido numerosos galardones, entre los que destacan el Governor Generalx{0026} x02019;s Award (en tres ocasiones); el Giller Prize (en dos); el National Book Critics Circle Award; el Rea Award; el Lannan Literary Award; el Premio Ennio Flaiano; el W. H. Smith Literary Award; el prestigioso Man Booker International Prize, que le fue otorgado en 2009 por la gran contribución de su obra al panorama literario mundial , y el Premio Nobel de Literatura, que recibió en 2013 por su maestría en el arte del relato .x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P Lumen ha publicadox{0026}lt;I La vida de las mujeres x{0026}lt;/I (1971); x{0026}lt;I Demasiada felicidad x{0026}lt;/I (2009); x{0026}lt;I Mi vida querida x{0026}lt;/I (2012); la selección de sus mejores relatos, que ella misma compiló bajo el títulox{0026}lt;I Todo queda en casa x{0026}lt;/I (2014);x{0026}lt;I ¿Quién te crees que eres? x{0026}lt;/I (2019); x{0026}lt;I Algo que quería contarte x{0026}lt;/I (2021), y x{0026}lt;I Danza de las sombrasx{0026}lt;/I (2022).x{0026}lt;/P