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  1. 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: Between 2005 and 2009, over a hundred girls and women in the colony woke up to discover that they had been raped in their sleep.

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  2. Apr 6, 2019 · 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 Mennonite colony ...

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  3. Sep 14, 2022 · The screen adaptation of Women Talking hews incredibly closely to the book, but Polley makes some key changes. She is even less interested than Toews in explaining the particularities of the ...

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  4. Mar 3, 2020 · Women Talking Paperback – March 3, 2020. Women Talking. 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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  5. 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 their ...

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  7. Apr 2, 2019 · Women Talking Kindle Edition. Women Talking. 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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  8. Aug 21, 2018 · ADVANCE PRAISE FOR WOMEN TALKINGWomen Talking is an astonishment, a volcano of a novel with slowly and furiously mounting pressures of anguish and love and rage. No other book I’ve read in the past year has spoken so lucidly about our current moment, and yet none has felt as timeless; the always-wondrous Miriam Toews has written a book as close to a Greek tragedy as a contemporary ...

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