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Women Talking (2018) is the seventh novel by Canadian writer Miriam Toews. Toews describes her novel as "an imagined response to real events," the gas-facilitated rapes that took place on the Manitoba Colony , a remote and isolated Mennonite community in Bolivia: [1] Between 2005 and 2009, over a hundred girls and women in the colony woke up to ...
Mar 3, 2020 · Women Talking Paperback – March 3, 2020. Women Talking. Paperback – March 3, 2020. by Miriam Toews (Author) 4.0 6,279 ratings. See all formats and editions. The basis of the Oscar-winning film from writer/director Sarah Polley, starring Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, with Ben Whishaw and Frances McDormand. INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER.
- Miriam Toews
Apr 6, 2019 · The Canadian writer Miriam Toews opens her astonishing eighth novel, Women Talking, with a matter-of-fact Author's Note.Between 2005 and 2009, she explains, eight men in a remote Mennonite colony ...
Apr 2, 2019 · 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." -- New York Times Book Review , Editor's Choice One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting.
- Miriam Toews
Apr 10, 2019 · “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.
Aug 21, 2018 · ADVANCE PRAISE FOR WOMEN TALKING “ 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 ...
- Miriam Toews
Apr 2, 2019 · Women Talking. Kindle Edition. by Miriam Toews (Author) Format: Kindle Edition. 4.0 6,301 ratings. See all formats and editions. The basis of the Oscar-winning film from writer/director Sarah Polley, starring Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, with Ben Whishaw and Frances McDormand. INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER.
- Miriam Toews
