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Alice Munros böcker älskas av läsare och kritiker över hela världen. Hon har belönats med flera litterära utmärkelser, sommaren 2009 fick hon Man Booker International Prize, den finaste utmärkelse en författare kan få vid sidan av Nobelpriset. I A...

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Alice Munros böcker älskas av läsare och kritiker över hela världen. Hon har belönats med flera litterära utmärkelser, sommaren 2019 fick hon Man Booke International Prize, den finaste utmärkelsen en författare kan få vid sidan av Nobelpriset.¿ Fö...

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Kvinnors liv är den enda romanen av 2013 års Nobelpristagare Alice Munro. Den gavs ursprungligen ut 1971 men kommer för första gången på svenska så sent som 2018, förtjänstfullt översatt av prisbelönta Rose-Marie Nielsen. Berättelsen om Del Jordan...

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Den som inte upptäckt Alice Munro har något att se fram emot. - Dagens Nyheter Brinnande livet består av fjorton nyskrivna berättelser. Här återfinns allt det som gjort Alice Munro till vår tids mest älskade novellförfattare: smärtan, värmen, kärl...

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In these stories lives come into focus through single events or sudden memories which bring the past bubbling to the surface. 'No one could possibly dispute Munro's greatness' Daily Mail The past, as Alice Munro's characters discover, is made up n...

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**WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE** **WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE** Alice Munro captures the essence of life in her brilliant collection of short stories. Moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate that leads ...

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A "profound and beautiful" (Francine Prose, O: The Oprah Magazine ) collection of ten stories from Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro "Filled with subtle and far-reaching thematic reverberations. . . . Munro has an empathy so pitch-perfect . ....

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Tio hudnära noveller av 2013 års Nobelpristagare i litteratur. Alice Munros berättelser rymmer ofattbar grymhet, svek och brutalitet, men också en seglivad kärlek och mänsklig värme. Munro skriver med sin sedvanliga ömhet, eftertanke och skärpa. H...

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Kvinnors liv är den enda romanen av Nobelpristagaren Alice Munro. Den gavs ursprungligen ut 1971 men kommer nu för första gången på svenska, förtjänstfullt översatt av prisbelönta Rose-Marie Nielsen. ¿ Berättelsen om Del Jordan, som växer upp på l...

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'Superb' Independent 'Exact and unflinching' Guardian Catching frogs, grazing knees, singing songs to save England from Hitler - that was childhood for Del Jordan, and now she's impatient for more. More than she can find in the encyclopaedias sold...

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På ålderns höst börjar 83-åriga Franklin och hans 71-åriga livspartner planera sin sorti. De känner sig nöjda med det liv de levt tillsammans, lyckligt och stilla. Men oense om ett avskedsbrev ska skrivas eller inte skjuter de fram sitt gemensamma...

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Covering the first half of Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro's career, these are some of the best, most touching and powerful short stories ever written. 'Munro can pack more into one of her stories - more subtlety, more grace, more tender twists of ...

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These are beguiling, provocative stories about manipulative men and the women who outwit them. 'Brimming with intensely believable characters and rich social detail' Sunday Times A wife and mother whose spirit has been crushed finds release from h...

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VEM BLIR NOBELPRISTAGARE i litteratur? Vad är det för slags författare och hur skriver de egentligen? Och är det möjligt att själv bli lika skicklig? I Skriv som en Nobelpristagare lyfter Kristian Fredén fram tio av dessa författargiganter och ana...

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Brilliantly paced, lit with sparks of danger and underlying menace, these are dazzling, provocative stories about Svengali men, and radical women who outmanoeuvre them, about destructive marriages and curdled friendships, about mothers and sons, a...

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'Read not more than one of her stories a day, and allow them to work their spell slowly: they are made to last' Guardian When her father marries his second wife, Chrissy gets a new step sister. Three years older than her, Queenie is beautiful and ...

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The first in Deborah Levy's essential three-part 'Living Autobiography' on writing and womanhood. 'Unmissable. Like chancing upon an oasis, you want to drink it slowly . . . Subtle, unpredictable, surprising' Guardian _____________________________...

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A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY WINNER OF THE PRIX FEMINA ETRANGER 2020 Following on from the critically acclaimed Things I Don't Want to Know, discover the powerful second memoir in Deborah Levy's essential three-part 'Living Autobiograp...

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Fernando Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet is a modernist masterwork that has now taken on a similar iconic status to Ulysses, The Trial or In Search of Lost Time. This complete and unabridged edition - published in Penguin Modern Classics - is edited...

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A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ACCORDING TO FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT, TIME MAGAZINE 'Levy's lyrical, pitch-perfect prose is an exploration of our reasons for living, the forces that drive us and the inner music that ...

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022 THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The Pulitzer Prize-winning, Booker-longlisted, bestselling author returns to her beloved heroine Lucy Barton in a luminous novel about love, loss, and the family secrets that...

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THE MODERN CLASSIC: OVER 20 MILLION COPIES SOLD A Sunday Times bestseller and a Richard & Judy book club pick 'The real deal: one gorgeous read' Stephen King 'This book will change your life. An instant classic' Daily Telegraph 'A book lover's dre...

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'She has examined the heart of man with an understanding ... that no other writer can hope to surpass' Tennessee Williams Often cited as one of the great novels of twentieth-century American fiction, Carson McCullers' prodigious first novel was pu...

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Isaac Bashevis Singer's work explores humanity in all of its guises. This collection of forty-seven short stories, selected by Singer himself from across the whole of his career, brings together the best of his writing. From the supernatural 'Taib...

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This is an all new version of the popular PARALLEL TEXT series, containing eight pieces of contemporary fiction in the original French and in English translation. Including stories by Bolanger, Cotnoir, Le Clezio and Germain, this volume gives afa...

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WINNER OF THE 2022 WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES, ESQUIRE, O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE, TIME MAGAZINE, LITHUB AND BUSTLE 'Superb' New York Times 'Masterful ? Supremely intelligent' Guardian 'Dazzling ? A marvel' Mail o...

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From one of the great thinkers and writers of our time, comes the unmissable final instalment in Deborah Levy's critically acclaimed 'Living Autobiography'. 'A beautifully crafted and thought-provoking snapshot of a life' The Evening Standard ____...

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Mary Gaitskill's tales of desire and dislocation in 1980s New York caused a sensation with their frank, caustic portrayals of men and women's inner lives. As her characters have sex, try and fail to connect, play power games and inflict myriad cru...

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Borges' stories have a deceptively simple, almost laconic style. In maddeningly ingenious stories that play with the very form of the short story, Borges returns again and again to his themes: dreams, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, the m...

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Men and women of passion and action live, fight, love and die in scenes of dramatic intensity. From haunting tragedy on the snow-capped peak of Kilimanjaro to brutal sensationalism in the bullring; from rural America with its deceptive calm to the...

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