The Moons of Jupiter

Cultural

Author: Alice Munro

**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**,,The characters who populate an Alice Munro story live and breathe. Passions hopelessly conceived, affections betrayed, marriages made and broken: the joys, fears, loves and awakenings of women echo throughout these twelve unforgettable stories, laying bare the unexceptional and yet inescapable pain of human contact…..Read More

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