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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In her latest collection of stories, Munro evokes the devastating power of old love suddenly recollected, in tales that resonate with sorrow, humor, and wisdom, and confirm her reputation as a living master of the genre. "Dazzles with its faith in language and in life".--New York Times Book Review.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE(R) IN LITERATURE 2013</b> <p/>In these eight tales, Munro evokes the devastating power of old love suddenly recollected. She tells of vanished schoolgirls and indentured frontier brides and an eccentric recluse who, in the course of one surpassingly odd dinner party, inadvertently lands herself a wealthy suitor from exotic Australia. And Munro shows us how one woman's romantic tale of capture and escape in the high Balkans may end up inspiring another woman who is fleeing a husband and lover in present-day Canada. <p/><b>Open Secrets</b> is a book that dazzles with its faith in language and in life.--<i>New York Times Book Review</i><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"She is our Chekhov, and is going to outlast most of her contemporaries."<br> -Cynthia Ozick <p/> "Brilliant at evoking life's diversity and unpredictability, [Alice Munro is] an unrivalled chronicler of human nature."<br> -<i>The Sunday Times</i> <p/> "An Alice Munro story zooms effortlessly through time zones, spans generations and offers up more detail and description than do many full-length contemporary novels."<br> -<i>Maclean</i>'<i>s</i> <p/> "She is the best fiction writer in North America."<br> -<i>The Vancouver Sun<br></i><br>Praise from fellow writers: <p/>"Her work felt revolutionary when I came to it, and it still does." --Jhumpa Lahiri <p/>"She is one of the handful of writers, some living, most dead, whom I have in mind when I say that fiction is my religion." --Jonthan Franzen <p/>"The authority she brings to the page is just lovely." --Elizabeth Strout <p/>"She's the most savage writer I've ever read, also the most tender, the most honest, the most perceptive." --Jeffery Eugenides <p/>"Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can."--Julian Barnes <p/>"She is a short-story writer who...reimagined what a story can do." --Loorie Moore <p/>"There's probably no one alive who's better at the craft of the short story." --Jim Shepard <p/>"A true master of the form." --Salman Rushdie <p/>"A wonderful writer." --Joyce Carol Oates<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published thirteen collections of stories as well as a novel, <i>Lives of Girls and Women, </i>and two volumes of <i>Selected Stories.</i> During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including three of Canada's Governor General's Literary Awards and two of its Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, England's W. H. Smith Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Man Booker International Prize. In 2013 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her stories have appeared in <i>The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, Granta, </i>and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She lives in Clinton, Ontario, near Lake Huron. <br></p>

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