Ad
related to: women talking bookBrowse & Discover Thousands of Book Titles, for Less.
Search results
Toews' novel centers on the secret meetings of eight Mennonite women who, on behalf of the other women in the colony, must decide how to react to these traumatic events. They have only 48 hours before the colony men, who are away to post bail for the rapists, return.
Sep 14, 2022 · Women Talking, her 7th novel, uses the horrific rapes as the basis for an explanation of how women speak when they are living in a place that denies them that right. It’s an austere novel that...
- 2 min
- Esther Zuckerman
Aug 21, 2018 · Women Talking tells the story of eight women's conversation as they decide what to do next: do nothing, stay and fight, or leave. Meeting in a hay loft, the women discuss the pros and cons of each option exploring such topics as healing, forgiveness, how they're perceived (less than animals), and their lack of education and inability to read.
- (6.3K)
- Miriam Toews
Apr 6, 2019 · Purchase. 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...
- Lily Meyer
Mar 3, 2020 · Paperback – March 3, 2020. by Miriam Toews (Author) 4.0 6,309 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.
- (6.3K)
- $10.07
- Miriam Toews
- Bloomsbury Publishing
Apr 2, 2019 · by Miriam Toews (Author) Format: Kindle Edition. 4.0 6,304 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
People also ask
Where can I buy women talking?
Who wrote 'Women Talking'?
What is women talking about?
Is women talking a true story?
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.
