Alice Munro has long been called the best author of short stories in the world, but her books are only coming to Russian readers now, after the writer received the Nobel Prize in Literature. In the thirteen stories in Munro’s collection “I’ve Long Wanted to Tell You,” the events of today are often connected with a past that no one except the narrator knows about. As in life, light and darkness, confessions and silences coexist closely in these deceptively simple stories that can each time turn towards us with a new facet. The New York Times literary critic called Munro's stories tragicomedies of manners, and their author the creator of a new original genre, unlike anything that readers knew before.