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  1. 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.

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  2. 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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  3. 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...

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  5. 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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  6. Jan 20, 2023 · Michael Gibson/Orion. 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...

  7. 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.

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  8. 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.

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