A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL
Mavis Gallant is a contemporary legend, a frequent contributor to The
New Yorker for close to fifty years who has, in the words of The New
York Times, "radically reshaped the short story for decade after
decade." Michael Ondaatje's new selection of Gallant's work gathers some
of the most memorable of her stories set in Europe and Paris, where
Gallant has long lived. Mysterious, funny, insightful, and
heartbreaking, these are tales of expatriates and exiles, wise children
and straying saints. Together they compose a secret history, at once
intimate and panoramic, of modern times.