**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**The first-ever selection of one of the world’s greatest living short-story writers, winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009. **Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature** This first-ever selection of Alice Munro’s stories sums up her genius. Her territory is the secrets that cackle beneath the fa ade of everyday lives, the pain and promises, loves and fears of apparently ordinary men and women whom she renders extraordinary and unforgettable.