Open Secrets
Open Secrets consists of eight stories. Most of the action takes place in Ontario and all the stories are connected to that place, but there is also a sense of history. One geographical exception occurs in a story in which the writer deviates from the main narrative line into the narration of the abduction of a passenger in Albania and her attempt to assimilate and finally escape.
All the stories are similar in appearance - intimate, tense, restrained, intense, simple, masterful and set in a picturesque Canadian town.
Munro writes about female protagonists, about their everyday lives and thoughts, without drama, even when the story of abduction or disappearance - the drama takes place in the minds of the characters, haunted by their conscience.
The reactions, emotions and thoughts of the protagonists are familiar to all of us and we can easily identify with them.
"People do everything," said the librarian. "They are tearing up the pages. Because they like something or they don't like something. "
Alice Munro was born in 1931 in Wingham, Ontario, Canada.
She is a two-time winner of the Giller Award. She is also the winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Man Booker International Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2013 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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