Demasiada felicidad
By: Alice Munro ; traducción de Flora Casas
Contributors: Casas, Flora, translator
Edition: 1a ed.
Publisher: Vintage Español
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Nueva York
Language: spa
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780804172981
Subjects: Conduct of life; Redemption; Elección (Psicología); Redención; Canadian Short stories; Choice (Psychology); Conducta (Etica); Fiction; Perdón; Interpersonal relations; Cuentos canadiense; Ficción; Forgiveness
Work titles: Short stories
Description: Ten new short stories from the author tackle a variety of themes, such as love, loss, and redemption. In the first story a young wife and mother receives release from the unbearable pain of losing her three children from a most surprising source. In another, a young woman, in the aftermath of an unusual and humiliating seduction, reacts in a clever if less-than-admirable fashion. Other stories uncover the "deep-holes" in a marriage, the unsuspected cruelty of children, and how a boy's disfigured face provides both the good things in his life and the bad. And in the long title story, we accompany Sophia Kovalevsky, a late-nineteenth-century Russian ́émigré and mathematician, on a winter journey that takes her from the Riviera, where she visits her lover, to Paris, Germany, and, Denmark, where she has a fateful meeting with a local doctor, and finally to Sweden, where she teaches at the only university in Europe willing to employ a female mathematician. Here the author renders complex, difficult events and emotions into stories that shed light on the unpredictable ways in which men and women accommodate and often transcend what happens in their lives.
Notes: Translation of: Too much happiness.
Table of contents: title: Dimensiones; title: Ficción; title: El filo de Wenlock; title: Pozos profundos; title: Radicales libres; title: Cara; title: Algunas mujeres; title: Juego de niños; title: Madera; title: Demasiada felicidad.