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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.
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- Miriam Toews
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 · 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 men in a remote...
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Aug 21, 2018 · Women Talking: A Novel. Hardcover – International Edition, August 21, 2018. by Miriam Toews (Author) 6,267. 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 6,240 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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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...
Apr 2, 2019 · Kindle Edition. by Miriam Toews (Author) Format: Kindle Edition. 4.0 6,221 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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