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Open Secrets Stories

In this new collection of stories -- the finest yet from one of the most brilliant writers of fiction at work today -- whole lives, whole worlds, unfold with an ease, a richness, an absolute "rightness" that are breathtaking.These are stories in which women are central. They are about lovers found and lovers lost but lodged still in the subconscious, about secrets that change lives, about people whose histories are opening out or coming to an end. Their power accumulates layer by layer as time and reality shift, identities become uncertain, truths surface.A heart patient on a trip to her doctor on a hot summer's day has a revelation about the lasting power of an old love. A long-hidden secret sticks in the consciousness of a young woman, who, in an outrageous but entirely satisfying act, finally rids herself of its thrall. A romantic tale of capture and escape in the wilds of central Europe may or may not be true, but it comforts the hearer, who, on an adventure of her own, is fleeing her husband. Two childhood friends resolve their lives in a madcap and unexpected way on a memorable midsummer's eve. A pioneer woman home-steading in the Canadian wilderness with her new husband and his brother devises a clever stratagem for eluding the certain and dire fate that awaits her if she remains on the farm.A wonderful gathering of stories in which once again, as she does with each new book, Alice Munro surpasses herself.From the Hardcover edition.

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  • "1a ed. de bolsillo"
  • "Open secrets"@he
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  • "Eight stories whose protagonists are women. The story, Carried Away, is on a librarian's romance with a World War I soldier who on his return marries another. The soldier is killed in a factory accident and the librarian marries the factory owner. Another story, An Albanian Virgin, is on a bag lady kidnapped by tribesmen in her youth. By the author of Friend of My Youth."
  • "In this new collection of stories -- the finest yet from one of the most brilliant writers of fiction at work today -- whole lives, whole worlds, unfold with an ease, a richness, an absolute "rightness" that are breathtaking.These are stories in which women are central. They are about lovers found and lovers lost but lodged still in the subconscious, about secrets that change lives, about people whose histories are opening out or coming to an end. Their power accumulates layer by layer as time and reality shift, identities become uncertain, truths surface.A heart patient on a trip to her doctor on a hot summer's day has a revelation about the lasting power of an old love. A long-hidden secret sticks in the consciousness of a young woman, who, in an outrageous but entirely satisfying act, finally rids herself of its thrall. A romantic tale of capture and escape in the wilds of central Europe may or may not be true, but it comforts the hearer, who, on an adventure of her own, is fleeing her husband. Two childhood friends resolve their lives in a madcap and unexpected way on a memorable midsummer's eve. A pioneer woman home-steading in the Canadian wilderness with her new husband and his brother devises a clever stratagem for eluding the certain and dire fate that awaits her if she remains on the farm.A wonderful gathering of stories in which once again, as she does with each new book, Alice Munro surpasses herself.From the Hardcover edition."@en
  • "Eight stories whose protagonists are women. The story, Carried Away, is on a librarian's romance with a World War I soldier who on his return marries another. The soldier is killed in a factory accident and the librarian marries the factory owner. Another story, An Albanian Virgin, is on a bag lady kidnaped by tribesmen in her youth. By the author of Friend of My Youth."@en
  • "Eight stories whose protagonists are women. The story, Carried Away, is on a librarian's romance with a World War I soldier who on his return marries another. The soldier is killed in a factory accident and the librarian marries the factory owner. Another story, An Albanian Virgin, is on a bag lady kidnaped by tribesmen in her youth. By the author of Friend of My Youth."
  • "WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2013 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. "Open Secrets is a book that dazzles with its faith in language and in life."--New York Times Book Review."@en
  • ""Otto protagoniste femminili, tratteggiate con ironia e partecipazione, rivivono le loro esistenze fatte di solitudine, di incompresioni, ma anche percorse da passioni segrete."--"
  • "Eight short stories set in Australia."
  • "Bundel korte verhalen over gewone Canadese inwoners van wie juist het eigenaardige wordt belicht."
  • "Munro evokes the devastating power of old love suddenly recollected, telling 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."
  • "Munro evokes the devastating power of old love suddenly recollected, telling 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."@en
  • "These are stories in which women are central. They are about lovers found and lovers lost but lodged still in the subconscious, about secrets that change lives, about people whose histories are opening out or coming to an end. Their power accumulates layer by layer as time and reality shift, identities become uncertain, truths surface."@en

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  • "Fiction"@he
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Anthologien"
  • "Nowele kanadyjskie w języku angielskim"@pl
  • "Nowele kanadyjskie w języku angielskim"
  • "Short stories"
  • "Short stories"@en
  • "Canadian short stories (English)"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Kanadské povídky (anglicky)"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Povídky"
  • "Verhalen (teksten)"
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Genres littéraires"
  • "Case studies"@en

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  • "Open Secrets Stories"@en
  • "Už dávno ti chci něco říct : a jiné povídky"
  • "Už dávno ti chci něco říct a jiné povídky"
  • "Secretos a voces"@es
  • "Secretos a voces"
  • "Open secrets stories"@en
  • "Open secrets stories"
  • "Secrets de Polichinelle : nouvelles"
  • "公开的秘密 / Open secrets / Alice Munro"
  • "Offene Geheimnisse : Erzählungen"
  • "Open secrets"
  • "Open secrets"@en
  • "Offene Geheimnisse Erzählungen"
  • "Sodot geluyim"
  • "Segreti svelati"@it
  • "Segreti svelati"
  • "Offene Geheimnisse"
  • "Jawne tajemnice"
  • "Jawne tajemnice"@pl
  • "Julkisia salaisuuksia : kertomuksia"
  • "Julkisia salaisuuksia : kertomuksia"@fi
  • "Offentlige hemmeligheder : noveller"@da
  • "Offentlige hemmeligheder : noveller"
  • "Den albanske jomfru og andre fortellinger"
  • "Gong kai de mi mi / Open secrets / Alice Munro"
  • "Offene Geheimnisse (Fischer Taschenbibliothek)"
  • "סודות גלויים"
  • "Open Secrets"
  • "Open Secrets"@en
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  • "Open secrets : stories"
  • "Open secrets : stories"@en
  • "Secrets de polichinelle : nouvelles"
  • "Secrets de Polichinelle"

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