For thirty years now, Alice Munro has 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. Criticism constantly compares Munro to Chekhov, and this comparison is not without reason: like the Russian writer, she knows how to tell a story in such a way that readers, even those belonging to a completely different culture, recognize themselves in the characters. In his newest collection, More Than Life itself, Munro again breathes real life into the characters, with all its flaws and nuances. The most powerful weapon in Munro's arsenal is the ability to empathize with characters, and here she again demonstrates it in full.