Hateship, Friendship, Courtship...

Resumen del libro

In these stories whose lives come into focus through single events or sudden memories which bring the past bubbling to the surface. The past, as her characters discover, is made up not only of what is remembered, but also what isn't. The past is there, just out of the picture, but if memories haven't been savoured, recalled in the mind and boxed away, it's as if they have never been - until a moment when the pieces of the jigsaw re-form suddenly, sometimes pleasurably but more often painfully. Women look back at their young selves, at first marriages made when they were naïve and trusting, at husbands and their difficult, demanding little ways. There is in this new collection an underlying heartbreak, a sense of regret in her characters for what might have been, for a fork in the road not taken, a memory suppressed in an act of prudent emotional housekeeping. But at the same time there is hope, there are second changes - her are people who reinvent themselves, seize life by the throat, who have moved on and can dare to conjure up the hidden memories, daring to go beyond what is remembered.

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