This is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. The matchless Munro makes a
rt out of everyday lives in this exquisite collection. Here are men and women of
wildly different times and circumstances, their lives made vividly palpable by
the nuance and empathy of Munro's writing.
Runaway is about the power and bet
rayals of love, about lost children, lost chances. There is pain and desolation
beneath the surface, like a needle in the heart, which makes these stories more
powerful and compelling than anything she has written before. It is the winner o
f the Man Booker International Prize 2009.
