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Too Much Happiness

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Zu viel oder zu wenig: für das Glück gibt es kein Maß, nie trifft man es richtig. Alice Munros Heldinnen und Helden geht es nicht anders, aber sie haben das Zuviel und Zuwenig erlebt: Sie kennen die Namen der Bäume, die Last ungeschriebener Briefe. Sie wissen, wie es sich anfühlt, wenn man den Mann, der die gemeinsamen Kinder getötet hat, in der Anstalt besucht.
Alice Munro ist die Meisterin des Nachhalls, der einem Leben seinen besonderen Klang gibt die Spannung und Vibration, die unserer Existenz ihre Farbe verleiht. Wie wir sie nehmen und verstehen entscheidet, ob wir zuviel oder zuwenig Glück messen: Alice Munro macht ihre Leser zu Komplizen dieser schwierigen Mission. Und plötzlich verstehen wir unser Leben neu.

These are beguiling, provocative stories about manipulative men and the women who outwit them.
'Brimming with intensely believable characters and rich social detail' Sunday Times

A wife and mother whose spirit has been crushed finds release from her extraordinary pain in the most unlikely of places. The young victim of a humiliating seduction finds an unusual way to get her own back and move on. An older woman, dying of cancer, weaves a poisonous story to save her life. Alice Munro takes on complex, even harrowing emotions and events and renders them into stories that surprise, amaze, and shed light on the unpredictable ways we accommodate to what happens in our lives.

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009

Produktdetails

Erscheinungsdatum
02. September 2010
Sprache
englisch
Seitenanzahl
303
Autor/Autorin
Alice Munro
Verlag/Hersteller
Produktart
kartoniert
Gewicht
240 g
Größe (L/B/H)
200/128/22 mm
ISBN
9780099524298

Portrait

Alice Munro

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.

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She writes with a beautiful clarity, an elemental humanity and a marvellous, limpid, funny, apprehension of what goes on Jane Shilling Sunday Telegraph

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Von Gisela B. am 09.11.2013

Too Much Happiness

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2013 ! Another wonderful collection from one who is becoming my favourite short story writer, even if I usully don't like reading short stories. I highly recommend Alice Munro for everyone, who loves good writing and honest, intuitive fiction.