{"product_id":"danza-de-las-sombras","title":"Danza de las sombras (Premio Nobel de Literatura)","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eALICE MUNRO UNPUBLISHED\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe acclaimed first book of short stories by the Nobel laureate, winner of the Governor General's Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003eBOOK OF THE YEAR IN \u003ci\u003eEL CULTURAL\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe magic of Alice Munro, invoked by so many writers and literary critics, with which she has illuminated the most everyday lives, feelings, and dialogues, and which has made her the best short story writer in contemporary literature, winner of the Nobel and the Booker, was already fully established in her first of fourteen short story collections:\u003ci\u003e Dance of the Happy Shades\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFifteen stories #some with a strong autobiographical character# that reveal the multiple nuances of human nature: a young woman discovers how much she doesn't know about her father when she accompanies him on his delivery route as a Walker Brothers salesman; a married woman returns home after her mother's death and tries to compensate her sister for the time she spent caring for her; the audience at a children's piano recital receives a surprising lesson when a \"singular\" student conveys unexpected emotion while playing a piece.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA key book in Munro's work, unpublished until today in Spanish, which won the Governor General's Award and consecrated her as the great narrator she was destined to be.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCritics have said:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e«The hallmarks of her writing are already apparent: her fondness for domestic lives shaken by the unexpected, her ability to create complex characters, the care she puts into details, and those endings that, even if unpredictable, always seem plausible. One of the best contemporary short story writers.»\u003cbr\u003eCarolina Alba, \u003ci\u003eLa Estación Azul (RTVE)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«The fifteen stories that make up the volume, unpublished until now in Spanish, evoke those of Sherwood Anderson in \u003ci\u003eWinesburg, Ohio\u003c\/i\u003e or John Steinbeck in \u003ci\u003eThe Pastures of Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e, in which the apparent pleasant life of their characters hides an infinitely more bitter reality.»\u003cbr\u003eJosé Antonio Gurpegui, \u003ci\u003eEl Cultural\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«Alice Munro's first book of short stories shows that she already had a brilliant concept that allowed her to transform and illuminate stories about the daily lives of her characters. Her wit was vital.»\u003cbr\u003eJavier García Recio, \u003ci\u003eLa Opinión de Málaga\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«Her magnificent narrative techniques with their darkness and endings, those stories where even breathing is suspended waiting for the next sentence, or the characters who are ordinary on the surface but hide unexpected torrents within... pure Munro. A gift.»\u003cbr\u003eElena Méndez, \u003ci\u003eLa Voz de Galicia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«In this early \u003ci\u003eDance of the Happy Shades\u003c\/i\u003e, the future Nobel Prize winner already showed her psychological studies, the narrative discontinuity, and the description of urbanizations with Chekhovian delicacy.»\u003cbr\u003eGonzalo Torné, \u003ci\u003eEl Mundo (La Lectura)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«A wonderful book with beautiful, magical stories.»\u003cbr\u003eNúria Espert\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«A master of the short story, Munro. Unrepeatable and extraordinary.»\u003cbr\u003eMiguel Rojo, \u003ci\u003eEl Comercio\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«How does Alice Munro do it? What she achieves seems like magic.»\u003cbr\u003eSara Mesa,\u003ci\u003e El País\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«Splendid creator of characters and magnificent describer of environments, especially rural ones. [...] Her exceptional mastery dates back to her literary beginnings.»\u003cbr\u003eCarlos Bravo Suárez, \u003ci\u003eDiario del Alto Aragón\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«Munro has an exceptional talent for narrating not very intense situations and feelings, which extend over time and are also de-dramatized by retrospective narration, but they move and captivate.»\u003cbr\u003ePatricio Pron,\u003ci\u003e Babelia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alice Munro","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43536070213880,"sku":"9788426410818","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/4897\/5608\/products\/danza-de-las-sombras-alice-munro-736586.jpg?v=1696464010","url":"https:\/\/ellector.com.pa\/es\/products\/danza-de-las-sombras","provider":"Librerías El Lector Panamá","version":"1.0","type":"link"}