This is the kind of novel that changes you. illuminating quest to comprehend the most vital contours of the human experience: what is agency, what is meaning, what is justice, what is love.
"Miriam Toews's Women Talking is a flawless, ferocious work of art. 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 Western novelist can come." - Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies and Florida " Women Talking is an astonishment, a volcano of a novel with slowly and furiously mounting pressures of anguish and love and rage. It explores the expansive, timeless universe of thinking and feeling about women-and men-in our contemporary world.įINALIST FOR THE 2018 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTIONįINALIST FOR THE 2019 TRILLIUM BOOK AWARD Gradually, as we hear the women's vivid voices console, tease, admonish, regale and debate each other, we piece together the reason for the gathering: they have forty-eight hours to make a life-altering choice on behalf of all the women and children in the colony.Īcerbic, funny, tender, sorrowful and wise, Women Talking is composed of equal parts human love and deep anger. Thus begins this spellbinding novel from award-winning writer Miriam Toews.
This task will be both simple and subversive: August, like the women, is a traditional Mennonite, and he has been asked to record a secret conversation. Soon eight women-ordinary grandmothers, mothers and teenagers-will climb the ladder into the loft, and the day's true task will begin. On a quiet June morning in 2009, August Epp sits alone in the hayloft of a barn, anxiously bent over his notebook. A FINALIST FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD: A transformative and necessary work-as completely unexpected as it is inspired-by the award-winning author of the bestselling novel s All My Puny Sorrows and A Complicated Kindness.
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