Open Secrets

alice munro

In these eight tales, Munro evokes the devastating power of old love suddenly recollected. She tells of vanished schoolgirls and indentured frontier brides and an eccentric recluse who, in the course of one surpassingly odd dinner party, inadvertently lands herself a wealthy suitor from exotic Australia. And Munro shows us how one woman's romantic tale of capture and escape in the high Balkans may end up inspiring another woman who is fleeing a husband and lover in present-day Canada.

Carried away --
A real life --
The Albanian virgin --
Open secrets --
The Jack Randa hotel --
A wilderness station --
Spaceships have landed --
Vandals

Genres short storiesfictioncanadacontemporaryliterary fictionnobel prizebook clubliteraturecanadian literature20th century

294 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1994

Literary awards

wh smith literary award, los angeles times book prize,

This edition

Format: 294 pages, Paperback
Published: November 7, 1995 by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780679755623
ASIN: 0679755624
Language: English

About the author

alice munro

Collections of short stories of noted Canadian writer Alice Munro of life in rural Ontario include Dance of the Happy Shades (1968) and Moons of Jupiter (1982); for these and vivid novels, she won the Nobel Prize of 2013 for literature.

People widely consider her premier fiction of the world. Munro thrice received governor general's award. She focuses on human relationships through the lens of daily life. People thus refer to this "the Canadian Chekhov."

(Arabic: أليس مونرو)
(Persian: آلیس مانرو)
(Russian Cyrillic: Элис Манро)
(Ukrainian Cyrillic: Еліс Манро)
(Bulgarian Cyrillic: Алис Мънро)
(Slovak: Alice Munroová)
(Serbian: Alis Manro)