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. Indeed, already in her debut collection, “Dance of the Blessed Shadows,” Munro magically demonstrated ordinary lives from an extraordinary perspective, as if with a spotlight, snatching out those bright moments when revelation emerges from under the layers of the most ordinary experience...