— Man Booker International Prize 23 Titles found
Sort: Author Date Format Price Title
Anthills of the Savannah
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: February 4, 1997
Price: $14.00
Using the conflict between city and tribal villages, the ravages of the great African drought and Third World politics as a compelling backdrop, Achebe weaves a potent drama of modern Africa. This novel describes power politics in an imaginary West African country, Kangan, 'where a military coup has brought to prominence... Read more >
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: February 4, 1997
Price: $14.00
Using the conflict between city and tribal villages, the ravages of the great African drought and Third World politics as a compelling backdrop, Achebe weaves a potent drama of modern Africa. This novel describes power politics in an imaginary West African country, Kangan, 'where a military coup has brought to prominence... Read more >
Arrow of God
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1989
Price: $14.00
Winner of the New Statesman Award. Set in the Ibo heartland of eastern Nigeria, this novel describes the conflict between old and new in its most poignant aspect: the personal struggle between father and son. Read more >
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1989
Price: $14.00
Winner of the New Statesman Award. Set in the Ibo heartland of eastern Nigeria, this novel describes the conflict between old and new in its most poignant aspect: the personal struggle between father and son. Read more >
Collected Poems
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: August 10, 2004
Price: $12.95
In this moving and powerful collection of poetry, acclaimed African writer Chinua Achebe deploys his prodigious literary gifts to produce verse that ranges from an account of the tragedy of Biafra to an appeal to African consciousness, from a gentle mockery of tradition to a recollection of personal relationships. Achebe's poems... Read more >
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: August 10, 2004
Price: $12.95
In this moving and powerful collection of poetry, acclaimed African writer Chinua Achebe deploys his prodigious literary gifts to produce verse that ranges from an account of the tragedy of Biafra to an appeal to African consciousness, from a gentle mockery of tradition to a recollection of personal relationships. Achebe's poems... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Girls at War
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1991
Price: $14.00
Twelve stories by the internationally renowned novelist which recreate with energy and authenticity the major social and political issues that confront contemporary Africans on a daily basis. Read more >
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1991
Price: $14.00
Twelve stories by the internationally renowned novelist which recreate with energy and authenticity the major social and political issues that confront contemporary Africans on a daily basis. Read more >
Home and Exile
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2001
Price: $11.00
More personally revealing than anything Achebe has written, Home and Exile–the great Nigerian novelist’s first book in more than ten years–is a major statement on the importance of stories as real sources of power, especially for those whose stories have traditionally been told by outsiders.
In three elegant essays, Achebe seeks to... Read more >
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2001
Price: $11.00
More personally revealing than anything Achebe has written, Home and Exile–the great Nigerian novelist’s first book in more than ten years–is a major statement on the importance of stories as real sources of power, especially for those whose stories have traditionally been told by outsiders.
In three elegant essays, Achebe seeks to... Read more >
A Man of the People
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: December 19, 1988
Price: $13.00
In A Man of the People, Achebe foreshadows the Nigerian coups of 1966 and shows the color and vivacity as well as the violence and corruption of a society making its own way between the two worlds Read more >
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: December 19, 1988
Price: $13.00
In A Man of the People, Achebe foreshadows the Nigerian coups of 1966 and shows the color and vivacity as well as the violence and corruption of a society making its own way between the two worlds Read more >
No Longer at Ease
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: September 16, 1994
Price: $12.00
The story of a man whose foreign education has separated him from his African roots and made him part of a ruling elite whose corruption he finds repugnant. More than thirty years after it was first written, this novel remains a brilliant statement on the challenges still facing African society. Read more >
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: September 16, 1994
Price: $12.00
The story of a man whose foreign education has separated him from his African roots and made him part of a ruling elite whose corruption he finds repugnant. More than thirty years after it was first written, this novel remains a brilliant statement on the challenges still facing African society. Read more >
Things Fall Apart
A Novel
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1994
Price: $11.00
Things Fall Apart tells two overlapping, intertwining stories, both of which center around Okonkwo, a "strong man" of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first story traces Okonkwo's fall from grace with the tribal world in which he lives. It provides us with a powerful fable about the immemorial conflict between... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1994
Price: $11.00
Things Fall Apart tells two overlapping, intertwining stories, both of which center around Okonkwo, a "strong man" of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first story traces Okonkwo's fall from grace with the tribal world in which he lives. It provides us with a powerful fable about the immemorial conflict between... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
The Beggar Maid
Stories of Flo and Rose
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: May 7, 1991
Price: $14.95
In this series of interweaving stories, Munro recreates the evolving bond between two women in the course of almost forty years. One is Flo, practical, suspicious of other people’s airs, at times dismayingly vulgar. The other is Rose, Flo’s stepdaughter, a clumsy, shy girl who somehow leaves the small town she... Read more >
Stories of Flo and Rose
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: May 7, 1991
Price: $14.95
In this series of interweaving stories, Munro recreates the evolving bond between two women in the course of almost forty years. One is Flo, practical, suspicious of other people’s airs, at times dismayingly vulgar. The other is Rose, Flo’s stepdaughter, a clumsy, shy girl who somehow leaves the small town she... Read more >
Carried Away
A Selection of Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Hardcover, 600 pages
On Sale: September 26, 2006
Price: $25.00
Carried Away is a dazzling selection of stories–seventeen favorites chosen by the author from across her distinguished career.
Alice Munro has been repeatedly hailed as one of our greatest living writers, a reputation that has been growing for years. The stories brought together here span a quarter century, drawn from some of... Read more >
A Selection of Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Hardcover, 600 pages
On Sale: September 26, 2006
Price: $25.00
Carried Away is a dazzling selection of stories–seventeen favorites chosen by the author from across her distinguished career.
Alice Munro has been repeatedly hailed as one of our greatest living writers, a reputation that has been growing for years. The stories brought together here span a quarter century, drawn from some of... Read more >
Dance of the Happy Shades
And Other Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: August 11, 1998
Price: $12.00
In these fifteen short stories—her eighth collection of short stories in a long and distinguished career—Alice Munro conjures ordinary lives with an extraordinary vision, displaying the remarkable talent for which she is now widely celebrated. Set on farms, by river marshes, in the lonely towns and new suburbs of western Ontario... Read more >
And Other Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: August 11, 1998
Price: $12.00
In these fifteen short stories—her eighth collection of short stories in a long and distinguished career—Alice Munro conjures ordinary lives with an extraordinary vision, displaying the remarkable talent for which she is now widely celebrated. Set on farms, by river marshes, in the lonely towns and new suburbs of western Ontario... Read more >
Friend of My Youth
Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: May 7, 1991
Price: $13.95
The ten miraculously accomplished stories in Alice Munro’s Friend of My Youth not only astonish and delight but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience.
“[Friend of My Youth is] a wonderful collection of stories, beautifully written and deeply felt.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
Contents
Friend... Read more >
Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: May 7, 1991
Price: $13.95
The ten miraculously accomplished stories in Alice Munro’s Friend of My Youth not only astonish and delight but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience.
“[Friend of My Youth is] a wonderful collection of stories, beautifully written and deeply felt.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
Contents
Friend... Read more >
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 8, 2002
Price: $14.95
In the nine breathtaking stories that make up her celebrated tenth collection, Alice Munro achieves new heights, creating narratives that loop and swerve like memory, and conjuring up characters as thorny and contradictory as people we know ourselves.
A tough-minded housekeeper jettisons the habits of a lifetime because of a teenager’s practical... Read more >
Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 8, 2002
Price: $14.95
In the nine breathtaking stories that make up her celebrated tenth collection, Alice Munro achieves new heights, creating narratives that loop and swerve like memory, and conjuring up characters as thorny and contradictory as people we know ourselves.
A tough-minded housekeeper jettisons the habits of a lifetime because of a teenager’s practical... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Lives of Girls and Women
A Novel
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2001
Price: $13.95
The only novel from Alice Munro-award-winning author of The Love of a Good Woman—is an insightful, honest book, “autobiographical in form but not in fact,” that chronicles a young girl's growing up in rural Ontario in the 1940’s.
Del Jordan lives out at the end of the Flats Road on her father’s... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2001
Price: $13.95
The only novel from Alice Munro-award-winning author of The Love of a Good Woman—is an insightful, honest book, “autobiographical in form but not in fact,” that chronicles a young girl's growing up in rural Ontario in the 1940’s.
Del Jordan lives out at the end of the Flats Road on her father’s... Read more >
The Love of a Good Woman
Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: October 26, 1999
Price: $14.95
In eight new stories, a master of the form extends and magnifies her great themes—the vagaries of love, the passion that leads down unexpected paths, the chaos hovering just under the surface of things, and the strange, often comical desires of the human heart.
Time stretches out in some of the stories... Read more >
Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: October 26, 1999
Price: $14.95
In eight new stories, a master of the form extends and magnifies her great themes—the vagaries of love, the passion that leads down unexpected paths, the chaos hovering just under the surface of things, and the strange, often comical desires of the human heart.
Time stretches out in some of the stories... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
The Moons of Jupiter
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: May 7, 1991
Price: $13.00
In these endlessly surprising stories, many things happen: there are betrayals and reconciliations, love affairs consummated and mourned. But the true events in The Moons of Jupiter are the ways in which the characters are transformed over time.
“How does one know when one is in the grip of art, a major... Read more >
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: May 7, 1991
Price: $13.00
In these endlessly surprising stories, many things happen: there are betrayals and reconciliations, love affairs consummated and mourned. But the true events in The Moons of Jupiter are the ways in which the characters are transformed over time.
“How does one know when one is in the grip of art, a major... Read more >
Open Secrets
Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: November 7, 1995
Price: $14.95
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. Munro shows us how one... Read more >
Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: November 7, 1995
Price: $14.95
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. Munro shows us how one... Read more >
The Progress of Love
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: December 12, 2000
Price: $14.00
Alice Munro, who received the National Book Critics Circle Award for her latest collection of stories, The Love of a Good Woman, is widely acknowledged as a modern master of the short story. In this earlier collection, she demonstrates all of those strengths that have won her so many literary accolades.
A... Read more >
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: December 12, 2000
Price: $14.00
Alice Munro, who received the National Book Critics Circle Award for her latest collection of stories, The Love of a Good Woman, is widely acknowledged as a modern master of the short story. In this earlier collection, she demonstrates all of those strengths that have won her so many literary accolades.
A... Read more >
Runaway
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $15.00
The incomparable Alice Munro’s bestselling and rapturously acclaimed Runaway is a book of extraordinary stories about love and its infinite betrayals and surprises, from the title story about a young woman who, though she thinks she wants to, is incapable of leaving her husband, to three stories about a woman named... Read more >
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $15.00
The incomparable Alice Munro’s bestselling and rapturously acclaimed Runaway is a book of extraordinary stories about love and its infinite betrayals and surprises, from the title story about a young woman who, though she thinks she wants to, is incapable of leaving her husband, to three stories about a woman named... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Selected Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
On Sale: November 11, 1997
Price: $16.95
Spanning almost thirty years and settings that range from big cities to small towns and farmsteads of rural Canada, this magnificent collection brings together twenty-eight stories by a writer of unparalleled wit, generosity, and emotional power. In her Selected Stories, Alice Munro makes lives that seem small unfold until they are... Read more >
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
On Sale: November 11, 1997
Price: $16.95
Spanning almost thirty years and settings that range from big cities to small towns and farmsteads of rural Canada, this magnificent collection brings together twenty-eight stories by a writer of unparalleled wit, generosity, and emotional power. In her Selected Stories, Alice Munro makes lives that seem small unfold until they are... Read more >
Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You
13 Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $13.95
Few writers have perfected the technique of the short story as Alice Munro has. She writes with deceptive simplicity and an extraordinary power of re-creation. Here, in Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You, is her familiar coterie of small-town types and her astonishing evocations of the happiness, pain, and pathos... Read more >
13 Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $13.95
Few writers have perfected the technique of the short story as Alice Munro has. She writes with deceptive simplicity and an extraordinary power of re-creation. Here, in Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You, is her familiar coterie of small-town types and her astonishing evocations of the happiness, pain, and pathos... Read more >
The View from Castle Rock
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $14.95
Alice Munro mines her rich family background, melding it with her own experiences and the transforming power of her brilliant imagination, to create perhaps her most powerful and personal collection yet.
A young boy, taken to Edinburgh’s Castle Rock to look across the sea to America, catches a glimpse of his father’s... Read more >
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $14.95
Alice Munro mines her rich family background, melding it with her own experiences and the transforming power of her brilliant imagination, to create perhaps her most powerful and personal collection yet.
A young boy, taken to Edinburgh’s Castle Rock to look across the sea to America, catches a glimpse of his father’s... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
Vintage Munro
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $9.95
“In Munro’s hands, as in Chekhov’s, a short story is more than big enough to hold the world—and to astonish us again and again.” —Chicago Tribune
Alice Munro’s mastery of the short story, which has earned her worldwide acclaim and numerous awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award for Love of... Read more >
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $9.95
“In Munro’s hands, as in Chekhov’s, a short story is more than big enough to hold the world—and to astonish us again and again.” —Chicago Tribune
Alice Munro’s mastery of the short story, which has earned her worldwide acclaim and numerous awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award for Love of... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Page 1 of 1
