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Fiction Literary

Mi vida querida / Dear Life

(Dear Life, Spanish-language)

by (author) Alice Munro

Publisher
PRH Grupo Editorial
Initial publish date
Feb 2014
Category
Literary, Short Stories (single author), Contemporary Women
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780804172967
    Publish Date
    Feb 2014
    List Price
    $18.95

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La gran autora canadiense nos ofrece Mi vida querida, una colección de cuentos en los que vemos a hombres y mujeres obligados a traficar con la duda, el dolor y la decepción sin más recursos que su humanidad.

¿Bastan un beso robado, un salto desde un tren en marcha, la sombra furtiva de una mujer, una borrachera de media tarde o las preguntas arriesgadas de una niña para conformar un mundo que tenga peso propio y cuente la vida entera? Si quien escribe es Alice Munro un simple adjetivo sirve para cruzar las fronteras de la anécdota y colocarnos en el lugar donde bullen los sentimientos y las emociones.

Comienzos, finales, giros del destino… y de repente, cuando creíamos que el relato llegaría a su obvia conclusión, Munro nos invita a dar otra vuelta de tuerca que cambia el fluir de los acontecimientos y emociona al lector, mostrando hasta qué punto esa vida cotidiana que tanto nos cansa puede llegar a ser extraordinaria. Cierran el volumen unas páginas que Munro dedica a su propia infancia, unas notas espléndidas donde lo personal se funde con la ficción, pues, en palabras de la misma autora “la autobiografía vive en la forma, más que en el contenido”.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013
A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable Work of FictionA Best Book of the Year: The Atlantic, NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, Vogue, AV Club
In story after story in this brilliant new collection, Alice Munro pinpoints the moment a person is forever altered by a chance encounter, an action not taken, or a simple twist of fate. Her characters are flawed and fully human: a soldier returning from war and avoiding his fiancée, a wealthy woman deciding whether to confront a blackmailer, an adulterous mother and her neglected children, a guilt-ridden father, a young teacher jilted by her employer. Illumined by Munro’s unflinching insight, these lives draw us in with their quiet depth and surprise us with unexpected turns. And while most are set in her signature territory around Lake Huron, some strike even closer to home: an astonishing suite of four autobiographical tales offers an unprecedented glimpse into Munro’s own childhood. Exalted by her clarity of vision and her unparalleled gift for storytelling, Dear Life shows how strange, perilous, and extraordinary ordinary life can be.

About the author

Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published ten previous books-Dance of the Happy Shades; Lives Of Girls And Women; Something I've Been Meaning To Tell You; Who Do You Think You Are?; The Moons Of Jupiter; The Progress Of Love; Friend of My Youth; Open Secrets; The Love of a Good Woman; and Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage-as well as Selected Stories, an anthology of stories culled from her dazzling body of work.

During her distinguished career, Munro has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including the W.H. Smith Award in the United Kingdom and, in the United States, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, the Lannan Literary Award, and the Rea Award for the Short Story.

In Canada, her prize-winning record is so extraordinary-three Governor General's Awards, two Giller Prizes (one of which was for Runaway), the Trillium Book Award, the Jubilee Prize, and the Libris Award, among many others-that it has been ironically suggested that as such a perennial winner, she no longer qualifies for new prizes. Abroad, acclaim continues to pour in. Both Runaway and Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book Award, Caribbean and Canada region, and were chosen as one of the Books of the Year by The New York Times.

Alice Munro's stories appear regularly in The New Yorker, as well as in The Atlantic Monthly, Saturday Night, and The Paris Review. She and her husband divide their time between Clinton (in “Alice Munro country”), Ontario, and Comox, British Columbia.

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Editorial Reviews

Elogios para Alice Munro...

“La complejidad de su literatura nace de las sutilezas del alma humana que a veces culminan en tragedia, pero su lectura es sencilla por la fuerza y limpidez de su estilo. No en balde se la considera la Chéjov de su país, como lo fue aquí Carson McCullers”. —El Nuevo Herald

“Como siempre, el estilo de Alice Munro es brillante, la atención que le presta cada uno de sus relatos es incansable, su curiosidad omnívora, y sus frases nacen en los ríos más fluidos”. —The Washington Post

“Munro es la maestra de la inevitable sorpresa... tiene la habilidad de llevarnos dentro de la mente de cada uno de sus personajes”. —St. Petersburg Times

“Pasa más en el transcurso de un cuento de Munro que lo que pasa en muchas novelas...son transformaciones apasionantes de amor, arrepentimiento, y nuestro propio renacimiento a lo largo del tiempo”. —The New York Post

“Coherente y decisiva, Munro logra convertir lo sentimental en lo existencial”.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
“Inolvidable, Mi vida querida es un regalo y un recordatorio al porque la obra de Munro perdura”.—The Boston Globe

“La lectura que piden los cuentos de Mi vida querida no es la de la prosa sino la de la poesía… una revelación de algo que no se agota porque está en las palabras y un poco más allá de ellas”. —Antonio Muñoz Molina