《The View from Castle Rock》 作者：Alice Munro 【EPUB】

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On a clear day, you could see 'America' from Edinburgh's Castle Rock - or so said Alice Munro's great-great-great-grandfather, James Laidlaw, when he had drink taken. Then, in 1818, Laidlaw left the parish of 'no advantages', of banked Presbyterian emotions and uncanny tales - where, like his more famous cousin James Hogg, he was born and bred - and sailed to the new world with his family. This is the story of those shepherds from the Ettrick Valley and their descendants, among them the author herself. They were a Spartan lot, who kept to themselves; showing off was frowned on, and fear was commonplace, at least for females... But opportunities present themselves for two strong-minded women in a ship's close quarters; a father dies, and a baby vanishes en route from Illinois to Canada; another story hints at incest; childhood is short and hazardous. This is family history where imperfect recollections blur into fiction, where the past shows through the present like the tracks of a glacier on a geological map. First love flowers under an apple tree while lust rears its head in a barn; a restless mother with ideas beyond her station declines painfully; a father farms fox fur and turkeys; a clever girl escapes to college and then into a hasty marriage. Beneath the ordinary landscape there's a different story - evocative, frightening, sexy, unexpected, gripping. Alice Munro tells it like no

艾丽丝·门罗（Alice Munro，1931.07.10~），加拿大女作家，被称为“加拿大的契科夫”。艾丽丝·门罗1931年生于加拿大加拿大渥太华，大部分时间都在这个安静的城市度过，少女时代即开始写小说。门罗以短篇小说见长，截至2013年10月，创作了11部短篇小说集和1部类似故事集的长篇小说。1968年，门罗发表第一部短篇小说集《快乐影子舞》(Dance of the Happy Shades)，并获得加拿大总督文学奖。其代表作有《好荫凉之舞》和《逃离》。门罗多次获奖，其中包括三次加拿大总督奖，两次吉勒奖，以及英联邦作家奖、欧亨利奖、笔会马拉穆德奖和美国全国书评人奖等。2009年获得第三届布克国际奖。
　　2013年10月10日，艾丽丝·门罗获得2013年诺贝尔文学奖，获奖理由是：“当代短篇小说大师。”爱丽丝·门罗是诺贝尔文学奖历史上获此殊荣的第13位女性作家。