Too much happiness: 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. Restraint, democracy, truthfulness, understanding of the subtlest shades of female psychology, the ability to cause mental shocks – these are the main signs of the style of a great writer.

Author
Manro Alice
Translator
Stepanov Andrey
Publisher
ABC, 2014
Series
ABC Premium