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Sep 14, 2022 · The real story . The circumstances of the attacks that inspired Women Talking are nightmarish. For years, men in the Manitoba Colony used an anesthetic initially made for cattle to render girls ...
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- Esther Zuckerman
Feb 10, 2023 · Miriam Toews Women Talking. £10 at Waterstones. The direct source material for Women Talking is a 2018 novel of the same name, by Canadian author Miriam Toews. Toews – inspired by the story of ...
- Miriam Toews
- Marie-Claire Chappet
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Jan 27, 2023 · M idway through 2009, I awoke to a stranger-than-fiction story in the local press in Bolivia, the country where I had been living and working as a reporter for four years. A group of eight ...
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- Jean Friedman-Rudovsky
Dec 3, 2022 · Women Talking is based on the book of the same name by Miriam Toews. However, that very story is based on true events that occurred in a Mennonite colony in Bolivia. Over 150 women were raped by a group of nine men in their community for four years between 2005 and 2009. The men reportedly used a narcotic spray, that was used on animals, to ...
- Senior Critic
Mar 12, 2023 · Women Talking. Women Talking is based on a true story, one that was fictionalized by author Miriam Toews. Toews herself was born in a Mennonite community in Canada; she left when she turned 18. "I ...
- Senior News Editor
Mar 31, 2019 · Editor's note: This story concerns sexual violence. Miriam Toews' new book Women Talking is based on a ghastly true story — here's the opening sentence: "Between 2005 and 2009, in a remote ...
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Women Talking is a 2022 American drama film written and directed by Sarah Polley.Based on the Canadian 2018 novel of the same name by Miriam Toews, itself inspired by the gas-facilitated rapes that occurred at the Manitoba Colony, a remote and isolated Mennonite community in Bolivia, [5] the film follows a group of American Mennonite women who discuss their future, following their discovery of ...
