Alice Munro, Jonathan Safran Foer and Stefan Zweig are bestsellers in Israel — and that’s a serious problem for Hebrew literature.
‘A Basket of Apples,’ a recently reissued collection of short stories by Canadian Shirley Faessler, recounts the lives of Jewish immigrants in Toronto with compassion and humor.
Canadian Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday for her tales of the struggles, loves and tragedies of women in small-town Canada that made her what the award-giving committee called the “master of the contemporary short story”.