Die Liebe einer Frau

Nobel Prize for Literature 2013
Alice Munro manages like no one else to accommodate so much reality, so much entanglement in so few pages. She knows how to fathom her characters so precisely in such a small space, to push the reader so skilfully over the seemingly everyday in the middle of the dark, mysterious of the human psyche.
Their stories are intimate plays of feeling, spectacular in the seemingly unspectacular - linguistic masterpieces. Alice Munro keeps everything in suspense, does not rush us out of our insecurity, but weaves us into her narrative web: her only home.