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Informationen zum 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. Klappentext This powerful book from Alice Munro is family history explored through fiction, as it recounts the experiences of her antecedents, who left Scotland for the New World at the beginning of the 19th century, interweaving their stories with those of subsequent generations. A work of great resonance, and strongly reviewed. 'A stunning achievement' "The Times" Zusammenfassung From her ancestors' view from Edinburgh's Castle Rock in the eighteenth century to her parents' thwarted ambitions in Ontario, and her own awakening in 1950s Canada, Munro effortlessly weaves fact and myth to create an epic story of past and present, proving that fiction has much to tell us about life.
