Die Heldinnen dieser Geschichten sind Frauen jeden Alters, die mit der Gewissheit leben, dass alles vergänglich ist, dass der Tod wie der Mond das ganze Leben begleitet. Alice Munro schildert mit Melancholie und Ironie alltägliche Erfahrungen: den trügerischen Wert der Erinnerungen, die Geheimnisse von Familien, die Wunden der Liebe. Die Titelgeschichte handelt vom Sterben eines Mannes, dessen Tochter sich von den Schatten der Vergangenheit lösen möchte. Sie zieht sich ins Planetarium zurück und wird durch die erhabene Ruhe, mit der die Planeten und Monde ihre Bahnen ziehen, getröstet.

Zusatztext "Munro is in a class of her own....No other writer working today is able to invest the humble story with more power! grace or breadth....Munro has been compared to Chekhov...She has the haunting lyricism and the indulgent wisdom to qualify."-- Los Angeles Times Book Review "How does one know when one is in the grip of art! a major talent? One feels it in the assurance! the sensibility behind every line of a work; one knows its presence as much from what is withheld as from what is given or explained. It is art that speaks from the pages of Alice Munro's stories." -- Wall Street Journal Praise from fellow writers: 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. Jonthan 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 She is a short-story writer whoreimagined what a story can do. Loorie Moore There's probably no one alive who's better at the craft of the short story. Jim Shepard A true master of the form. Salman Rushdie A wonderful writer. Joyce Carol Oates Informationen zum Autor Alice Munro is the author of thirteen collections of storiesincluding Dear Life, Runaway , and Too Much Happiness as well as a novel, Lives of Girls and Women . Among the many awards and prizes she received are three Governor General's Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes in Canada; the Rea Award; the Lannan Literary Award; the National Book Critics Circle Award; and the International Booker Prize. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker , The Atlantic , The Paris Review , and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Alice Munro died in 2024. Klappentext WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013 In these piercingly lovely and endlessly surprising stories by one of the most acclaimed current practitioners of the art of fiction, many things happen: there are betrayals and reconciliations, love affairs consummated and mourned. But the true events in The Moons Of Jupiter are the ways in which the characters are transformed over time, coming to view their past selves with an anger, regret, and infinite compassion that communicate themselves to us with electrifying force. Zusammenfassung Eleven witty, subtle, [and] passionate ( The New York Times Book Review ) stories from Nobel Prizewinning author Alice Munro, a true master of the form (Salman Rushdie) Alice Munro's fine and intelligent stories are like Edward Hopper paintings, lit with a relentless clarity, and richly illuminating the perplexities of human connection, their possibilities and pain. Washington Post Book World In these piercingly lovely and endlessly surprising stories by one of the most acclaimed practitioners of the art of fiction, many things happen; there are betrayals and reconciliations, love affairs consummated and mourned. But the true events in The Moons of Jupiter are the ways in which the characters are transformed over time, coming to view their past selves with anger, regret, and infinite compassion that communicate themselves to us with electrifying force....

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Alice Munro is the author of thirteen collections of stories—including Dear Life, Runaway, and Too Much Happiness—as well as a novel, Lives of Girls and Women. Among the many awards and prizes she received are three Governor General’s Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes in Canada; the Rea Award; the Lannan Literary Award; the National Book Critics Circle Award; and the International Booker Prize. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Alice Munro died in 2024.

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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013

In these piercingly lovely and endlessly surprising stories by one of the most acclaimed current practitioners of the art of fiction, many things happen: there are betrayals and reconciliations, love affairs consummated and mourned. But the true events in The Moons Of Jupiter are the ways in which the characters are transformed over time, coming to view their past selves with an anger, regret, and infinite compassion that communicate themselves to us with electrifying force.

Zusammenfassung
Eleven “witty, subtle, [and] passionate” (The New York Times Book Review) stories from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro, “a true master of the form” (Salman Rushdie)

“Alice Munro’s fine and intelligent stories are like Edward Hopper paintings, lit with a relentless clarity, and richly illuminating the perplexities of human connection, their possibilities and pain.”—Washington Post Book World
 
In these piercingly lovely and endlessly surprising stories by one of the most acclaimed practitioners of the art of fiction, many things happen; there are betrayals and reconciliations, love affairs consummated and mourned. But the true events in The Moons of Jupiter are the ways in which the characters are transformed over time, coming to view their past selves with anger, regret, and infinite compassion that communicate themselves to us with electrifying force.