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"Dear Life" is a work written by Alice Munro, the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature, just before she won the prize. It is also her latest work so far. In a certain sense, it was this unique and profound novel that impressed the Nobel Prize jury. The novel tells the story of separation and beginning, accident and danger, leaving home and returning home. It is considered to be Munro's richest, most perfect and most personal "masterpiece". This is about life, about the journey of life. On this journey, nothing happens as we hope. But in the end, none of that mattered. We will eventually forgive the world and ourselves. Because the life we ​​have been treating with such kindness will eventually return kindness to you and me. My dear, life.

"Friends of My Youth" contains ten excellent short stories written by Alice Munro, the Nobel Prize winner in literature, during her mature period of writing. Munro weaves fragments of daily life into exquisite stories and fables. Under the light of this language, ordinary life dances gracefully. Whether it is fleeting love or long-term silent companionship, whether it is an ancient life without waves or sudden changes, they are all presented on paper, making it soul-stirring to read.

"Things I've Always Wanted to Tell You" tells about those unspeakable loves, perhaps the abnormal love that has been buried deep in the heart for decades and cannot be expressed, perhaps the truth about the love affair that is completely different from what the husband thought, the disgust for a brother who was not talented but was favored, or recounting the past events after the relationship broke up... The lives of ordinary people have created many stories with depth and tension. In the slow flow of time, waves rise and undercurrents surge.

[The representative work of the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature] [Won the 2009 Booker International Prize] [The New York Times Best Book of the Year, the French "Reading" magazine's Best Foreign Novel of the Year, and won the Canadian Literary Award Giller Prize] [Elaborately translated by the famous translator Li Wenjun] She is a master of contemporary short stories. --Nobel Prize Speech Escape may be the end of the old. Maybe it's a new beginning. Maybe it's just some insignificant moments, like the relaxed steps on the way to the theater, like the longing for nothing by the window in the afternoon.

Views from Castle Rock defies categorization, being a combination of novel and memoir. In this book, Munro traces her family history, recreating her ancestors' life in Scotland and their experiences of traveling across the ocean. The lives of generations after generations are vividly displayed in her writings. There are textual research, legends, and personal experiences in the book... History comes like the sound of horse hooves, and personal lives also come one after another, which makes people feel a hundred kinds of feelings when reading it.

The 2013 Nobel Prize winner for literature, Alice Munro's famous and debut novel, took 15 years to write and won Canada's highest literary award, the Governor General's Award. People often tell us how beautiful our lives are, but no one tells us about the dark side behind the beauty and how we should face it. In 15 short stories, Munro observes ordinary life from an extraordinary perspective. The undercurrent of the story tears open the calm surface of life, and explores the whispers deep in the female soul with diamond-like sharpness, telling the common little emotions of human beings.

The 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature was announced on October 10. The Canadian female writer Alice Munro's award may be another surprise to everyone - she only writes short stories, never long novels. This seems to be a reminder to some writers who think that it is important to write long stories: there is never any priority in writing, but the emphasis is on embodying the essence and spirit of art. In the award speech for this year's Nobel Prize in Literature, Alice Munro was hailed as a "master of contemporary short stories." In this issue, we focus on promoting her most famous masterpiece, the novel "Escape", which won the 3rd Booker International Literature Prize, and attaches the author's biography and the related link "Speaking of Munro" so that readers can get a glimpse and have a preliminary understanding of Alice Munro's novel creation. Kara heard the sound before the car even climbed over the top of the hill-the slightly raised mound of earth known to those nearby as a hill.

There are many unforgettable memories in the long time that the protagonist Ruth grows from a little girl to a mature woman. Joyful, painful, embarrassing, passionate... Alice Munro collected fragments of Ruth's life and strung together ten wonderful short stories, using her life and perspective to show the changes in the world and the changes in women's lives in the past thirty years. This is both a wonderful collection of novels and a vivid history of women's growth.

In "Hate, Friendship, Pursuit, Love, Marriage", Munro refines almost all the themes of people's emotional life, and uses sharp and delicate language to record nine stories that are extremely close to the truth of life. Emotions have no boundaries, there is no bottom line for depravity, and there is no winning or losing in life... No matter in which era, the wisdom contained in these stories in "Hate, Friendship, Pursuit, Love, Marriage" is timely, even prophetic, exploring the possibilities and consequences of life. "Hate, Friendship, Pursuit, Love, Marriage" was selected as the best novel of the year by Time Magazine. It is full of the writer's mature life experience and represents the highest artistic achievement of Munro's life.

In "Open Secrets," eight stories about "secrets," Alice Munro evokes the devastating power of a sudden rebirth of an old love. The librarian who is obsessed with letters and love, the orphan girl who wanders in the wilderness, the female Christian who destroys her neighbor's house... The women in Munro's works all have a "secret", and they maintain a vague distance from the truth. "Open Secrets" was nominated for the Governor General's Award of Canada, was named the best book of the year by the New York Times, and won the WH. Smith Literary Award. Since then, Munro's works have increasingly attracted widespread attention in the international literary world.

How many times in a person's life can former partners meet again, dusty childhood memories suddenly awaken, and elderly parents are cared for by their children like babies? In the 11 short stories of "The Process of Love", Munro focuses on the most private corners of ordinary people's lives, focusing on the inextricable frustrations and love between lovers, husbands and wives, siblings, parents and children. The author's narrative is poignant and compassionate, recording how people's selves, choices, and experiences of love quietly change at different stages of life. "The Progress of Love" was published in 1986, which won Munroe the third time for Canada's highest literary award, the Governor General's Literary Award.

"The Lives of Girls and Women" consists of eight chapters. Due to its coherent content, it was once considered Alice Munro's only "novel". The story in "The Lives of Girls and Women" takes place in a rural town in Ontario in the 1940s, and depicts a woman's growth from ignorance and youth to a wise and intelligent observer of life. As she witnesses lust, life and death, she experiences both the light and dark sides that women face. "The Lives of Girls and Women" has a strong autobiographical significance. For Munro researchers and enthusiasts, reading "The Lives of Girls and Women" can provide an in-depth understanding of Munro's life and creative background.

"The Love of a Good Woman" uses profound insights to explore various types of love, the conflicts and deceptions beneath the surface of social politeness, and the strange and often ridiculous desires of the human heart. Time is repeatedly stretched: the hero and heroine look back to the summer when they first met forty years ago, and the true meaning of life is revealed at this time; time is also observed under a microscope: overnight, the young woman discovers that her mother, who is full of feminine charm, can no longer rely on... "The Love of a Good Woman" won the Giller Prize for Literature and the National Book Critics Circle Award. With wonderful details and unwavering courage, this collection of novels established Alice Munro as one of the most outstanding novelists of our time.

In 2013, Alice Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The following year, she personally selected the most accomplished and representative short stories from 1995 to 2014 and compiled them into this book, including her masterpieces "Escape", "A Good Woman's Love", "Dear Life", "Happiness Too Much", "Hate, Friendship, Pursuit, Love, Marriage" and so on. The stories in the book are mostly set in Canadian small towns and rural life, and may be autobiographical, involve historical figures, or tell the ordinary lives of ordinary people. Through various subtle relationships, fleeting emotions and irreversible choices, they are deeply shocking.

When we are young, we boldly use the word "love" without taking on any responsibility or thinking about the future. "The Moons of Jupiter" is a collection of representative short stories by Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro. It contains eleven quiet and shining short stories. Various characters transform in the flow of time and reflect on their past selves with anger, regret and infinite sympathy. The two people who have long passed the age where they are prone to confusion and infatuation, and want to get married rationally, have a rift and change. While they are busy having an affair with a single female colleague, their only son is killed in a car accident, and the relationship between the two parties is facing a huge change. The old father who originally planned to welcome his death calmly suddenly decided to undergo heart surgery to prolong his life, and "I" felt ripples in my heart...