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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...
Apr 6, 2019 · By Miriam Toews. 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...
Aug 21, 2018 · Women Talking: A Novel Hardcover – International Edition, August 21, 2018. by Miriam Toews (Author) 4.0 6,301 ratings. See all formats and editions. A transformative and necessary work--as completely unexpected as it is inspired--by the award-winning author of the bestselling novels All My Puny Sorrows and A Complicated Kindness.
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Mar 3, 2020 · 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.
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Aug 21, 2018 · 58,428ratings7,246reviews. Kindle $8.30. Rate this book. One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past two years, each of these women, and more than a hundred other girls in their colony, has been repeatedly violated in the night by demons coming to punish them for their sins.
Apr 2, 2019 · Hardcover – April 2, 2019. by Miriam Toews (Author) 4.0 6,235 ratings. See all formats and editions. The internationally bestselling novel based on real events. Now a major motion picture from writer/director Sarah Polley, starring Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, with Ben Whishaw and Frances McDormand.
- Miriam Toews
