With Ten superb new stories Too Much Happiness is a convincing provoking and daring collection written by Alice Munro who is one of most adored and admired writers She is the winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize The book starts with a story in which a young wife and mother receives discharge from the intolerable pain of losing her three children from a most unexpected source In another story a young woman in the after effects of an and seduction reacts in an intelligent if fashion Other stories expose the in a marriage the unsuspected brutality of children and how a boys spoiled face provides both the good things in his life as well as bad And finally in the long title story we escort Sophia Kovalevsky a Russian expatriate and on a winter journey that takes her from the Riviera where she visits her lover to Paris Germany and Denmark where she has a momentous meeting with a lekarz i wreszcie do Szwecji gdzie ona wykłada na tylko w Europie które są gotowe do płci żeńskiej w partii prostoty i łatwości Alice Munro ponownie udostępnia zdarzenia twarde i emocje do wątków które rzucić światło na dziwne sposoby w których mężczyzn i kobiet i często co się dzieje w ich życiu listopada 2009 18