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About Miriam Toews. Miriam Toews is the author of seven bestselling novels: Women Talking, All My Puny Sorrows, Irma Voth, The Flying Troutmans, A Complicated Kindness, A Boy of Good Breeding, and Summer of My Amazing Luck, and one work of non-fiction, Swing Low: A Life. She is a winner of the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, the Libris ...
Acerbic, funny, tender, sorrowful and wise, Women Talking is composed of equal parts humane love and deep anger. It is award-winning writer Miriam Toews' most astonishing novel to date, containing within its two short days and hayloft setting an expansive, timeless universe of thinking and feeling about women--and men--in our contemporary world.
Sep 3, 2022 · With a title like “Women Talking,” audacious actor-turned-helmer Sarah Polley’s fourth feature makes clear that it will be one of those rare films able to pass the Bechdel test. That ...
Jan 1, 2019 · Toews, M. (2018). Women talking. Faber & Faber.Miriam Toews is a Canadian writer and author of nine books. She has a B.A. in Film Studies from the University of Manitoba, and a Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of King's College, Halifax.Between 2005 and 2009 in a remote Mennonite community in Bolivia, girls and women would wake up to discover they had been sexually violated.
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Watch the trailer, find screenings & book tickets for Women Talking on the official site. Now Playing in Select Theaters, Everywhere January 20thbrought to you by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures. Directed by: Sarah Polley. Cast: Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Judith Ivey, with Ben Whishaw, and Frances McDormand
Dec 23, 2022 · The real-life facts are beyond horrifying. Between 2005 and 2009, 150 women and young girls were drugged and then raped by men in their secluded Mennonite community in Bolivia. The women would wake up having no idea what happened, but seeing blood on their sheets and legs, or noticing their underwear was missing.
Mar 3, 2020 · Women Talking is a wry, freewheeling novel of ideas that touches on the nature of evil, questions of free will, collective responsibility, cultural determinism and, above all, forgiveness…[Toews] depicts the women at the center of the novel with insight, sympathy and respect. Their conversation is loose, unpredictable, occasionally profane ...
