“Runaway”

Winner of the Man Booker International Prize. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2013.

With an Introduction by Jonathan Franzen.

“Millions of words have been split in attempts to tell us exactly what it means to be human. In Runaway Munro performs that very miracle” – The Times.

The matchless Munro makes art out of everyday lives in this dazzling new 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 betrayals of love, about lost children, lost chances. There is pain and desolation beneath the surface, like a needle in the heart, which makes Runaway more potent and compelling than anything she has written before.