About the book: 2014 / For thirty years now, Alice Munro has been called the best short story author in the world, but her books are only coming to the Russian reader now, after the writer received 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. Collection “Who Do You Think You Are?” - awarded Canada's Governor General's Award and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize - is essentially an episodic novel. The stories of Flo and her adopted daughter Rose - trying to rise above life's circumstances, graduate from university, build a career, finally find happiness - are told with trademark psychological precision, and sudden plot twists give the story a magical flavor of mystery.