In small towns and far-flung cities, ordinary moments carry the weight of secrets that can alter a life. Ranging from the late nineteenth century to the 1990s and from rural Ontario to the Somme and the Balkans, Open Secrets is a series of interconnected stories that follow eight women at turning points in their lives. A missed letter, a sudden disappearance, an unexpected act of betrayal. Each event ripples outward, reshaping marriages, friendships and the stories people tell about themselves. From the winner of the ...
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In small towns and far-flung cities, ordinary moments carry the weight of secrets that can alter a life. Ranging from the late nineteenth century to the 1990s and from rural Ontario to the Somme and the Balkans, Open Secrets is a series of interconnected stories that follow eight women at turning points in their lives. A missed letter, a sudden disappearance, an unexpected act of betrayal. Each event ripples outward, reshaping marriages, friendships and the stories people tell about themselves. From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Man Booker International Prize, Open Secrets is a landmark collection in which private lives unfold against the sweep of twentieth-century history. 'A superb collection... Marriage, gambles, disappearances, motiveless vandalism - it is the stuff of unremarkable lives, conveyed in a remarkable fashion' Independent
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In addition to the crafting of the storylines, even the actual reading of the stories made me appreciate Munro more and more. Each sentence of each story seems to flow out of an 'organic' source, fitting together in such a beautiful way that one feels that they are experiencing something special.
The first story has been a longtime favorite of mine, a widely layered story of a 'lost' love, a love of reading (or is it?), marital satisfaction and a decapitation in a sawmill (did it happen?).
Reading each story just amplifies the power of the written word, in the hands of a master short story writer
