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By (author) Toews Miriam; By (author) Toews Miriam
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**READ THE BOOK BEFORE YOU WATCH THE MAJOR FILM STARRING CLAIRE FOY, JESSIE BUCKLEY, ROONEY MARA AND BEN WHISHAW**
”Don”t miss this.” MARGARET ATWOOD
”Beautiful.
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**READ THE BOOK BEFORE YOU WATCH THE MAJOR FILM STARRING CLAIRE FOY, JESSIE BUCKLEY, ROONEY MARA AND BEN WHISHAW**
”Don”t miss this.” MARGARET ATWOOD
”Beautiful. . . a novel for the times.” LISA McINERNEY
”Tender, enraging and brimming with a bitter wit.” The Times
”An astonishment, a volcano of a novel.” LAUREN GROFF
In a remote Mennonite colony, over a hundred girls and women were knocked unconscious and violated-by what many thought were ghosts or demons-as punishment for their sins. Their accounts were chalked up to ”wild female imagination.”
Women Talking is an imagined response to these real events. When the women learn that they were in fact drugged and attacked by men in their community, they hold a secret meeting in a hayloft. They have two days to make a plan before the rapists are bailed out and brought home: will they dare to escape?
”Profound, affecting stuff.” Sunday Telegraph
”Brave and thoughtful.” Observer
Biographical note:
Miriam Toews is the author of six bestselling novels: Summer of My Amazing Luck, A Boy of Good Breeding, A Complicated Kindness, The Flying Troutmans, Irma Voth, and All My Puny Sorrows, and one work of non-fiction, Swing Low: A Life. She is a winner of the Governor General”s Award for Fiction, the Libris Award for Fiction Book of the Year, the Rogers Writers” Trust Fiction Prize, and the Writers Trust Marian Engel/ Timothy Findley Award. She lives in Toronto.
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A profound, unsettling novel from the award-winning author of All My Puny Sorrows.
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Don”t miss this one! This amazing, sad, shocking, but touching novel, based on a real-life event, could be right out of The Handmaid”s Tale.
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Women Talking is an astonishment, a volcano of a novel with slowly and furiously mounting pressures of anguish and love and rage. No other book I”ve read in the past year has spoken so lucidly about our current moment, and yet none has felt as timeless; the always-wondrous Miriam Toews has written a book as close to a Greek tragedy as a contemporary Western novelist can come.
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This beautiful battle cry of a novel is in urgent conversation with the contemporary moment.
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What a beautiful thing – thoughtful but red-blooded with a cast of powerful personalities, and every word from them so deeply felt. It”s a considerable achievement to have written so sensitively and yet so compellingly about such brutal crimes. It”s a novel for the times.
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Miriam Toews has written a modern classic as real and warm and terrifying as a pail of fresh blood. It”s a perfect work of artthat will leave you ill with awe.
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Toews, who made her name with the wry autobiographical novel All My Puny Sorrows, knows how to extract humour from horror while still producing a work of resonance and power . . . Tender, enraging and brimming with a bitter wit.
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Brave and thoughtful . . . The improbable, almost magical result creates something redemptive from a subject that seems anything but.
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If you”ve been hooked on The Handmaid”s Tale, here”
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