Alice Munro can often say more in 30 pages than an ordinary novelist can in 300. She is a virtuoso of the elliptical, the master of the contemporary short story. Munro has, like few others, come close to solving the greatest mystery of all: the human heart and its whims.

“Her work felt revolutionary when I discovered it, and it still feels that way.” - Jhumpa Lahiri

“She is one of the few writers, some alive, most dead, that I think of when I say that fiction is my religion.” - Jonathan Franzen

“The authority she brings to the page is simply wonderful.” - Elizabeth Strout

“She is the wildest writer I have ever read, at once the most tender and the most honest.”.