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Todo queda en casa
Todo queda en casa | Alice Munro
6 posts | 6 read | 16 to read
Cuando, una maana de octubre de 2013, son el nombre de Alice Munro como ganadora del Premio Nobel de Literatura, no eran muchos los lectores que conocan su obra, que haban andado con ella por las ciudades y pueblos canadienses donde se despliega su mundo y haban descubierto el placer y el dolor que se esconden a menudo debajo del mantel de hule de una mesa de cocina cualquiera. Muchos se preguntaron por dnde empezar a leer, y la respuesta est en Todo queda en casa, una seleccin de los mejores cuentos de Alice Munro realizada por la misma autora como feliz despedida a la tarea de la escritura, un recorrido que abarca toda su carrera literaria. En estos veinticuatro cuentos se resume el trabajo de una vida entera dedicada a hurgar en las emociones y los sentimientos de una manera que sorprende y entusiasma porque ah, en esos parajes tan lejanos, encontramos lo mejor y lo peor de nosotros. A modo de prlogo, esta edicin incluye "Alice Munro en sus propias palabras", la entrevista que sirvi como discurso de agradecimiento a la academia sueca el da en que le fue entregado el Premio nobel. Quiero que mis cuentos conmuevan a las personas; no me importa si son hombres, mujeres o nios...quisiera que el lector, al terminar un cuento, sintiera que es una persona distinta. Alice Munro
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prowlix
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“They have a lovely life, cows. It ends, of course, in the slaughterhouse. The end is a disaster. For everybody, though, the same thing. Evil grabs us when we are sleeping; pain and disintegration lie in wait.”

My first Munro 💗

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shawnmooney
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Because Alice. ❤️❤️❤️

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MrBook
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#TBRtemptation post 8! If you're a Munro fan, you'll love this thick, heavy book from the Nobel Prize winner! Besides being a treasure trove of 25 of her short stories, it's gorgeous to behold and worthy of displaying on your coffee table. Most of the stories are set in southwestern Ontario, and they highlight the extraordinary peculiarities among common folk while resonating with universal themes beautifully rendered. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎

saresmoore I can't believe I haven't bought this one yet! 7y
Leftcoastzen Yay! 7y
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SubwayBookReview
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Sam: "I heard about Munro when she won the Nobel Prize and wanted to check her out. This is a collection of short stories and I pretty much love all of them. Munro nails the humanity of every day situations. The complexity of people's motivations and how nothing is black or white – I really enjoy the clarity with which she presents this. Someone like Joyce uses very flowery language that can be hard to understand. This is not that kind of novel."

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Simona
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Alfrida writes for the paper, and the narrator of this short story (Family Furnishings) is a writer. It's a pitch-perfect short story, and the example for - how to write in the form of a short story, and to tell the whole novel.
... and my book of this short stories is paperback 😉

#rockinmay #paperbackwriter

Cinfhen Nicely played 👍🏻😊 8y
LeahBergen Alice Munro. 👏🏻👏🏻 8y
batsy Oh wow. Added to the list: Must. Read. More. Munro. 8y
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imajod
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So many books, so little time.