Danza de las sombras

The magic of Alice Munro, who has been invoked by so many writers and literary critics, with which she has filled everyday lives, feelings and dialogues with light, and which has made her the best short-story writer in contemporary literature, winner of the Nobel and the Booker, was already fully entrenched in the first of his fourteen storybooks: Dance of Shadows. Fifteen stories -some of them markedly autobiographical- that reveal the multiple nuances of human nature: a young woman discovers how much she doesn't know about her father when she accompanies him on his delivery route as a salesman for Walker Brothers; a married woman returns home after the death of her mother and tries to compensate her sister for the time she has spent taking care of hers; the audience at a children's piano recital receives a surprising lesson when a "rare" student conveys an unexpected emotion while performing a piece.