WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013
"Ambitious and risky... heedless of convention, hazarding everything, firmly convincing... Open Secrets is a book that dazzles with its faith in language and in life." - The New York Times Book Review
In these eight new tales, a living master of the short story reveals entire lives with a sureness that is nothing less than breathtaking, capturing those moments in which people shrug off old truths, old selves, and what they only thought was fate.
In Open Secrets, Alice 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. The resulting volume resonates with sorrow, humor, and wisdom and confirms Alice Munro's reputation as one of the most gifted writers of our time.
"Each of her collections demonstrates such linguistic skill, delicacy of visioin, and...moral strength and clarity...that the notion of her pre-eminence becomes ever more irresistible." - Chicago Tribune
“The great Alice Munro proves again why short-story writers bow down to her.” –Vanity Fair
“Her work felt revolutionary when I came to it, and it still does.” —Jhumpa Lahiri
“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.” —Jonathan Franzen
“The authority she brings to the page is just lovely.” —Elizabeth Strout
“She’s the most savage writer I’ve ever read, also the most tender, the most honest, the most perceptive.” —Jeffery Eugenides
“Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can.”—Julian Barnes
“A wonderful writer.” —Joyce Carol Oates
