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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 ...
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 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.
Mar 31, 2019 · 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 Mennonite colony in Bolivia, many girls and women would ...
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 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
Toews, who has written often about her own Mennonite history, has told a riveting story that is both intensely specific and painfully resonant in the wider world. Women Talking is essential, elemental. USA Today. An astonishment, a volcano of a novel with slowly and furiously mounting pressures of anguish and love and rage.
