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