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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 ...
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...
- Esther Zuckerman
Apr 6, 2019 · 'Women Talking' is a profoundly intelligent book. It is an indictment of authority and a defense of belief. As the novel progresses, the women become increasingly conscious of that future.
- Lily Meyer
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. As...
- Jennifer Reese
Jan 20, 2023 · Miriam Toews' novel Women Talking is drawn from events that came to light in a Bolivian Mennonite colony in 2009, when a group of men was charged with raping more than 100 girls and women in...
Mar 31, 2019 · Miriam Toews' new novel is based on an awful true story: The drugging and rape of women in a Mennonite colony in Bolivia. Toews says she wanted to show the women as real humans, not isolated...
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Dec 23, 2022 · Sheila O'Malley December 23, 2022. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. The real-life facts are beyond horrifying. Between 2005 and 2009, 150 women and young girls were drugged and then raped by men in their secluded Mennonite community in Bolivia.
