Nobel Prize for Literature 2013. Too much or too little - there is no measure for happiness, and it is never quite right. Alice Munro's heroines and heroes experience the same; they have encountered both excess and deficiency: finding a balance is difficult. In the search for it, Alice Munro makes her readers accomplices in this thrilling mission. "I admire Alice Munro. I admire the directness of her storytelling, the sobriety and simplicity of her language. (...) What stories, what a body of work!" Bernhard Schlink, Die Welt.