Miriam Toews - Böcker

Kvinnor som pratar ¿är en skakande berättelse baserad på verkliga händelser bland mennoniter (en strikt hållen gren av kristendomen vars mest kända del är amish) i Bolivia. I den isolerade mennonitkolonin drogas och våldtas under flera år byns kvi...

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THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2025 'The best memoir you will read all year' NICK HORNBY 'A triumph - a meditation on writing, suicide, guilt and silence' GUARDIAN 'Curious and idiosy...

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Två systrar som båda försökt bryta sig loss från det mennonitsamhälle de växt upp i, som älskarvarandra men samtidigt är varandras motsatser. Den ena, Elf, framgångsrikkonsertpianist som gång på gång försöker avsluta sitt liv. Den andra, Yoli,stru...

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Shortlisted for the Folio Prize 2015 Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2015 Sunday Times Top Choice Summer Read A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Elf and Yoli are two smart, loving sisters. Elf is a world-renowned pian...

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Kvinnor som pratar är en skakande berättelse baserad på verkliga händelser bland mennoniter (en strikt hållen gren av kristendomen vars mest kända del är amish) i Bolivia. I den isolerade mennonitkolonin drogas och våldtas under flera år byns kvin...

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**READ THE BOOK BEFORE YOU WATCH THE MAJOR FILM STARRING CLAIRE FOY, JESSIE BUCKLEY, ROONEY MARA AND BEN WHISHAW** 'Don't miss this.' MARGARET ATWOOD 'Beautiful. . . a novel for the times.' LISA McINERNEY 'Tender, enraging and brimming with a bitt...

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FROM THE WRITER OF THE OSCAR-WININNG WOMEN TALKING INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 'Go Grandma Elvira!' Margaret Atwood 'Wickedly funny and fearlessly honest.' The New Yorker 'Glorious.' Sarah Moss _______...

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THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2025'The best memoir you will read all year' NICK HORNBY'A triumph - a meditation on writing, suicide, guilt and silence' GUARDIAN'Curious and idiosyncra...

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THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2025 'The best memoir you will read all year' NICK HORNBY 'A triumph - a meditation on writing, suicide, guilt and silence' GUARDIAN 'Curious and idiosy...

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This novel about a daughter estranged from her religious family "e;combines an intimate coming-of-age tale with picaresque and extremely effective prose"e; (Publishers Weekly).In a rare coming-of-age novel that blends dark truths with upli...

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In this completely captivating book, Miriam Toews has created some of the most engaging characters in Canadian literature: Hattie, Logan and Thebes are bewildered, hopeful, angry, and most of all, absolutely alive. Full of richly skewed, richly fu...

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From the award-winning author of A Complicated Kindness comes a heart-wrenching yet wryly funny story about setting out on the road to self-discovery, and finding the strength to survive in the face of immeasurable loss. Nineteen-year-old Irm...

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The stifling, reclusive life of nineteen-year-old Irma Voth, recently married and more recently deserted, is turned on its head when a film crew moves in to make a movie about the strict religous community in which she and her family live. She is ...

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One morning Mel Toews put on his coat and hat and walked out of town, prepared to die. A loving husband and father, faithful member of the Mennonite church, and immensely popular schoolteacher, he was a pillar of his close-knit community. Yet afte...

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Miram Toews's All My Puny Sorrows -Sunday Times Top Choice Summer ReadElf and Yoli are two smart, loving sisters. Elf is a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, happily married: she wants to die. Yoli is divorced, broke, sleeping with the wr...

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**READ THE BOOK BEFORE YOU WATCH THE MAJOR FILM STARRING CLAIRE FOY, JESSIE BUCKLEY, ROONEY MARA AND BEN WHISHAW**'Don't miss this.' MARGARET ATWOOD'Beautiful. . . a novel for the times.' LISA McINERNEY'Tender, enraging and brimming with a bitter ...

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We're Mennonites. As far as I know, we are the most embarrassing sub-sect of people to belong to if you're a teenager. Sixteen-year-old Nomi Nickel longs to hang out with Lou Reed and Marianne Faithfull in New York City's East Village. Instead she...

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Knute is a twenty-four-year-old single mother who returns home to Algren with her daughter to look after her father Tom, who has suffered a heart attack. Meanwhile, Hosea Funk, a friend of Tom's and the mayor of Algren has a lot on his mind. The p...

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'In this chaotic world the only stability comes from our love for one another, quirks and all. In Toews's hands, that can be funny or heartbreaking, usually at the same time.' Washington Post Meet the Troutmans. Hattie is living in Paris, city of ...

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Jorge said he wasn't coming back until I learned how to be a better wife . . . But before he drove off he gave me a new flashlight with triple C batteries and I'm grateful for it because this is a very dark, pitch-black part of the world . . . The...

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'Toews's debut is a tart, affectionate look at welfare mothers...Toews is especially good on the "rollicking, happy, impoverished family" of the projects [and] scathing about the humiliations of poverty.' New York Times Lucy and her eight-month-ol...

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FROM THE WRITER OF THE OSCAR-WININNG WOMEN TALKINGINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHORLONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD'Go Grandma Elvira!' Margaret Atwood'Wickedly funny and fearlessly honest.' The New Yorker'Glorious.' Sarah Moss____________Y...

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**READ THE BOOK BEFORE YOU WATCH THE MAJOR FILM STARRING CLAIRE FOY, JESSIE BUCKLEY, ROONEY MARA AND BEN WHISHAW** 'Don't miss this.' MARGARET ATWOOD 'Beautiful. . . a novel for the times.' LISA McINERNEY 'Tender, enraging and brimming with a bitt...

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"e;Move over, Scout Finch! There's a new contender for feistiest girl in fiction, and her name is Swiv."e; -USA Today, "e;Best Books of the Year"e;"e;Toews is a master of dialogue."e; -New York Times Book Review, Editors' C...

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Internationally bestselling author Miriam Toews recounts her father's life as he might have told it, right up to his final day.One morning, Mel Toews put on his coat and hat, walked out of town, and took his own life. A loving husband and father, ...

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"e;Toews is an artist of escape; she always finds a way for her characters, trapped by circumstance, to liberate themselves."e; -Alexandra Schwartz, The New YorkerJorge said he wasn't coming back until I learned how to be a better wife . ....

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L'Elf i la Yoli son dues germanes intel*ligents i ben avingudes. L'Elfrieda es una pianista de renom mundial, encantadora, rica i felicment casada: vol morir. La Yolandi esta divorciada, li costa arribar a fi de mes amb el sou que guanya...

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