The Moons of Jupiter

alice munro

THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

The characters who populate an Alice Munro story live and breathe. Passions hopelessly conceived, affections betrayed, marriages made and broken: the joys, fears, loves and awakenings of women echo throughout these twelve unforgettable stories, laying bare the unexceptional and yet inescapable pain of human contact.

Genres short storiesfictioncanadanobel prizecontemporaryliterary fictioncanadian literatureclassicsbook club20th century

233 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1983

This edition

Format: 233 pages, Paperback
Published: January 1, 2004 by Vintage
ISBN: 9780099458364
ASIN: B007YTIGMO
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)