The Stone Diaries - Brossura

"Carol Shields has explored the mysteries of life with abandon, taking unusual risks along the way. The Stone Diaries reminds us again why literature matters."
—The New York Times Book Review

"...Shields's storytelling is at its most ambitious and compelling."
—The Toronto Star

"A beautiful, darkly ironic novel of misunderstanding and missed opportunites."
—Esquire

"A wise and unusual novel that makes the ordinary extraordinary...Shields reveals the mysteries of love, culture and spirituality shimmering beneath the surface of a quiet woman’s life."
—Elle

Carol Shields is an internationally known author who has won many awards for her novels and short stories. The Stone Diaries was the winner of the 1993 Governor General's Award for Fiction, the McNally Robinson Award for Manitoba Book of the Year and was also short-listed for the Booker Prize. Shields has also been chosen as the Canadian Bookseller Association's Author of the Year. Her other books include: Happenstance, The Republic of Love, The Orange Fish, Small Ceremonies, Swann, Various Miracles and The Box Garden. She lives and writes in Winnipeg.