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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...
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- Esther Zuckerman
Feb 10, 2023 · Starring Frances McDormand, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley and Rooney Mara, the premise of Women Talking is deceivingly simple; a group of women from a fictitious Mennonite community sit in a...
- Miriam Toews
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Jan 27, 2023 · But here’s what I want them to know about the real one. First, the rapes happened to real people, in a real country. In the movie, the location of the colony is ambiguous (and the one briefly ...
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- Jean Friedman-Rudovsky
Mar 12, 2023 · 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 felt I...
- Senior News Editor
Plot. Women Talking opens with a note from the author in which she describes her novel as both "a reaction through fiction" to true-life events and "an act of female imagination." The true-life events Toews refers to took place in the Manitoba Colony, a remote Mennonite community in Bolivia.
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- Miriam Toews
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...
Feb 7, 2023 · Today on Front Burner, a series of sexual assaults at a Mennonite Colony in Bolivia is the inspiration behind Sarah Polley’s new film Women Talking. We’ll hear the real story from a...
