More expensive than life itself: Alice Manro

For thirty years, Alice Manro has been called the best author of short stories in the world, but her books come to the Russian reader only now, after the writer received the Nobel Prize in literature. Criticism constantly compares Manro with Chekhov, and this comparison is not without reason: like a Russian writer, she knows how to tell the story so that readers, even belonging to a completely different culture, recognize themselves in the heroes of themselves. In its latest collection “more expensive than life itself”, Manro again inhales in heroes real life with all its flaws and nuances. The strongest weapon in the Arsenal Manro is the ability to sympathize with the characters, and here she again demonstrates him in full.

Author
Manro Alice
Translator
Borovikova Tatyana
Publisher
ABC, 2014
Series
ABC Premium

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