num_pages: 294
description: In these eight tales, Munro evokes the devastating power of old love suddenly recollected. She tells of vanished schoolgirls and indentured frontier brides and an eccentric recluse who, in the course of one surpassingly odd dinner party, inadvertently lands herself a wealthy suitor from exotic Australia. And Munro shows us how one woman's romantic tale of capture and escape in the high Balkans may end up inspiring another woman who is fleeing a husband and lover in present-day Canada.Carried away --A real life --The Albanian virgin --Open secrets --The Jack Randa hotel --A wilderness station --Spaceships have landed --Vandals
language: English
title: Open Secrets
titlecomplete: Open Secrets
genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Canadian Literature, Canada, Womens, Literature, Nobel Prize, Contemporary, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 5953
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: WH Smith Literary Award, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Alfred A. Knopf