Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage Stories. Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009

Surely Munro s best yet. The New York Times Book Review

She is the living writer most likely to be read in a hundred years. Mona Simpson, The Atlantic Monthly

One of the foremost practitioners of the art of the short story. . . . These tales have the intimacy of a family photo album and the organic feel of real life. The New York Times

A writer to cherish. . . . The sheer spaciousness of Munro s storytelling, her gift for surprising us with the truth about ourselves, has transcended national boundaries. Los Angeles Times Book Review

In Munro s hands, as in Chekhov s, a short story is more than big enough to hold the world and to astonish us, again and again. Chicago Tribune

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 who reimagined 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