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Fight Night

'A Gem: humour and hope in the face of suffering' Observer

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

124 kr

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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____________You are a small thing, and you must learn to fight.Swiv has taken this advice too literally. Now she's suspended from school, in the care of her foul-mouthed, hilarious grandmother. Mom is busy being pregnant, so Grandma gives Swiv a very different education. Swiv learns maths with Amish jigsaws and How to Dig a Winter Grave. Grandma's methods may be unorthodox, but she has faced the worst of life with a wild, independent spirit and this is what she hopes to pass on. Time is running short. Grandma's health is failing and the baby is on the way - can Grandma inspire this fire in Swiv, and ensure it never goes out?Poignant, hilarious and deeply moving, Fight Night is a girl's love letter to the women raising her and a tribute to one family's fighting spirit.'A love letter to our brave and brilliant matriarchs.' Glamour'Miriam Toews is a genius.' R. O. Kwon'As compelling and hilarious and indecently sad as life can be.' Financial Times

Mina futtiga små sorger

Inbunden, Svenska, 2025

289 kr

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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,strulig, fattig och frånskild och vill bara hålla sin syster vid liv.

Inför en stundande världsturné gör Elf ytterligare ett självmordsförsök, vilket får Yoli att resa hem för att vara vidhennes sida på sjukhuset. Hem till minnen av det förgångna och att ställasinför Elfs önskan att Yoli ska följa med till en klinik i Schweiz för attavsluta hennes liv.

Med Miriam Toews fantastiska förmåga att balansera mellan vemod och humor ställs frågan var gränsen för ovillkorlig syskonkärlek kan gå.

Ensamma strider

Inbunden, Svenska, 2023

282 kr

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Swiw är en nioårig flicka som bor i Toronto med sin envisa mormor och gravida mamma. När Swiw stängs av från skolan ger mormor henne i uppdrag att skriva ett brev till sin frånvarande pappa. Ett brev som blir till en makalös berättelse om de tre generationernas liv tillsammans, om viljan att få leva ett gott liv och striderna och priset det kräver. Om att stå emot män som byggherrar, präster och regissörer som försöker styra deras liv.

Mormor gillar när historier är snabba och krångliga och roliga, samma sak med livet, och tillsammans med Swiw rusar hon nu fram genom slutet av sitt liv och skriver ner sina råd till Swiws ofödda småsyskon: Du är så liten och du måste lära dig att kämpa.

Ensamma strider är ett lika fängslande som hysteriskt kärleksbrev till alla mammor och mormödrar. En hyllning till kvinnlig motståndskraft och alla kvinnor som fortfarande kämpar smärtsamt och ändlöst för att få leva på sina egna villkor.

Kvinnor som pratar

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Pocket, Svenska, 2025

89 kr

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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 kvinnor om nätterna.

Många av kvinnorna tror att de blivit överfallna av demoner och deras vittnesmål avfärdas som kvinnlig hysteri. Nu samlas kvinnorna till rådslag om de ska stanna och förlåta eller ge sig av ut i en för dem okänd omvärld, de som inte tillåtits lära sig läsa och enbart pratar plattyska i ett spansktalande land.

Kvinnor som pratar är kanadensiska Miriam Toews explosiva roman vars rappa dialog trollbinder läsaren och om vilken Margaret Atwood skrivit:

Missa den inte! Denna fantastiska, sorgliga, chockerande, men gripande roman, baserad på verkliga händelser, kunde vara tagen direkt från Tjänarinnans berättelse.

"En litterär liten pärla." - SvD

"Glöder med ett trollbindande sken." - Kulturnytt

"En stor läsupplevelse där både hjärta och hjärna tas i anspråk." - DN

"Explosion av smärta, skönhet, kärlek och intelligens." - Aftonbladet

"Intressant, vasst och roligt." - Sydsvenskan

All My Puny Sorrows

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

129 kr

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Shortlisted for the Folio Prize 2015Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2015Sunday Times Top Choice Summer ReadA SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURYElf 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 wrong men: she desperately wants to keep her older sister alive.When Elf's latest suicide attempt leaves her hospitalised weeks before her highly anticipated world tour, Yoli is forced to confront the impossible question of whether it is better to let a loved one go.'The novel she has written - so exquisitely that you'll want to savour every word - reads as if it has been wrenched from her heart.' Christina Patterson, Sunday Times'[Toews] has produced a masterly book of such precise dignity. It is, also against all the odds, at times a desperately humorous novel.' Daily Mail

Truce That Is Not Peace

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

196 kr

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THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A FINALIST 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 idiosyncratic and enjoyable’ ZADIE SMITH ‘Darkly moving and heart-wrenchingly funny’ MARIE CLAIRE A book of the year in the Guardian, New Yorker, TIME, Washington Post, New Statesman, NPR, Irish Times and LitHub. The internationally bestselling author of Women Talking and All My Puny Sorrows, Miriam Toews, returns with a singular memoir celebrating disobedient memory, wit, writing and life. ‘Why do you write?’ the organiser of a literary event in Mexico City asks Miriam Toews. Each attempted answer from Toews – all of them unsatisfactory to the organiser – surfaces new layers of grief, guilt and futility connected to her sister’s suicide. She has been keeping up, she realises, a decades-old internal correspondence, filling a silence she barely understands. And we, her readers, come to see that the question is as impossible to answer as deciding whether to live life as a comedy or a tragedy.A Truce That Is Not Peace is the first time Toews has written about her own life in nonfiction. Wildly inventive yet masterfully controlled; wrenching and joyful – this is Miriam Toews at her dazzling best, remaking her world and inventing an astonishing new literary form to contain it. ‘A grief memoir in the vein of Joan Didion’s Blue Nights’ New York Times ‘[Toews] does not shy away from her own vulnerability, and writes with both candour and humour’Observer ‘Toews knows exactly how to extract hilarity from horrifying events’The Times ‘Nothing short of a masterpiece’San Francisco Chronicle ‘This is memoir perfection … I adored it’ Cariad Lloyd, author of You Are Not Alone‘Brilliant … it broke my heart in the best of ways’ Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti‘Tragi-comic, and incredibly moving … essential reading for turbulent times’ Laura van den Berg, author of The Third Hotel‘Toews has done something very rare: shown us a true inner world’ Samuel Graydon, author of Einstein in Time and Space‘An affirmation of Life in all its richness and variety … remarkable’ Celia Paul, author of Self-Portrait‘I would have read another thousand chapters’ Catherine Newman, author of Sandwich‘Piercing and distilled, a masterpiece in vulnerability and performance’ Hannah Pittard, author of We Are Too ManyA Truce That Is Not Peace was a #1 bestseller in Canada in w/c 06/09/2025

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Truce That Is Not Peace

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

133 kr

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THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2025 ‘The best memoir you will read all year’ NICK HORNBY ‘A triumphant meditation on loss, literature and the unspoken’GUARDIAN ‘Curious and idiosyncratic and enjoyable’ ZADIE SMITH ‘Darkly moving and heart-wrenchingly funny’ MARIE CLAIRE The internationally bestselling author of Women Talking and All My Puny Sorrows, Miriam Toews, returns with a singular memoir celebrating disobedient memory, wit, writing and life. ‘Why do you write?’ the organiser of a literary event in Mexico City asks Miriam Toews. Each attempted answer from Toews – all of them unsatisfactory to the organiser – surfaces new layers of grief, guilt and futility connected to her sister’s suicide. She has been keeping up, she realises, a decades-old internal correspondence, filling a silence she barely understands. And we, her readers, come to see that the question is as impossible to answer as deciding whether to live life as a comedy or a tragedy. A book of the year in the Guardian, New Yorker, TIME, Washington Post, New Statesman, NPR, Irish Times and LitHub. ‘Toews knows exactly how to extract hilarity from horrifying events’THE TIMES ‘Memoir perfection … I adored it’ CARIAD LLOYD, author of You Are Not Alone‘I can’t get enough of Miriam’s Toews’ writing’ NINA STIBBE, author of Went to London, Took the Dog‘Beautiful, hilarious, devastating’ PAULA HAWKINS, author of The Blue Hour‘Brilliant … it broke my heart in the best of ways’ SHARLENE TEO, author of Ponti ‘A grief memoir in the vein of Joan Didion’s Blue Nights’ NEW YORK TIMES A Truce That Is Not Peace was a #1 bestseller in Canada in w/c 06/09/2025

Flying Troutmans

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

108 kr

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Meet the Troutmans. Hattie is living in Paris, city of romance, but has just been dumped by her boyfriend. Min, her sister back in Canada, is going through a particularly dark period. And Min's two kids, Logan and Thebes, are not talking and talking way too much, respectively. When Hattie receives a phone call from eleven-year-old Thebes, begging her to return to Canada, she arrives home to find Min on her way to a psychiatric ward, and becomes responsible for her niece and nephew. Realising that she is way out of her league, Hattie hatches a plan to find the kids' long-lost father. With only the most tenuous lead to go on, she piles Logan and Thebes into the family van, and they head south . . .

Irma Voth

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

108 kr

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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 religious community, in which she lives. When she clashes with her domineering father over her work as a translator for the crew, Irma is set on a path towards something that feels like freedom. Along with her younger sister Aggie, wise beyond her teenage years, she hits the road and flees to the city. Upheld only by their love for each other and their smart wit, the sisters finally gain the distance to understand the tragedy that has their family in its grip. Irma Voth delves into the complicated factors that set us on the road to self-discovery and how we can sometimes find the strength to endure the really hard things that happen. It also asks that most difficult of questions: How do we forgive? And most importantly, how do we forgive ourselves?

Swing Low

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

125 kr

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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 after a lifetime of struggle, he could no longer face the darkness of manic depression. With razor-sharp precision,Swing Low tells his story in his own voice, taking us deep inside the experience of despair. But it is also a funny, winsome evocation of country life: growing up on farm, courting a wife, becoming a teacher, and rearing a happy, strong family in the midst of private torment. A humane, inspiring story of a remarkable man, father, and teacher.

Women Talking

The Oscar-winning film starring Rooney Mara, Jessie Buckley and Claire Foy

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

133 kr

Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar

**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 wit.' The Times'An astonishment, a volcano of a novel.' LAUREN GROFFIn a remote Mennonite colony, over a hundred girls and women were knocked unconscious and violated-by what many thought were ghosts or demons-as punishment for their sins. Their accounts were chalked up to 'wild female imagination.' Women Talking is an imagined response to these real events. When the women learn that they were in fact drugged and attacked by men in their community, they hold a secret meeting in a hayloft. They have two days to make a plan before the rapists are bailed out and brought home: will they dare to escape?'Profound, affecting stuff.' Sunday Telegraph'Brave and thoughtful.' Observer

Complicated Kindness

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

124 kr

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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's trapped in East Village, Manitoba: a town with no train station, no bar, and where job prospects consist of slaughtering chickens at the Happy Family Farms abattoir.Since her mother and sister have left home, Nomi lives with her father, Ray, a sweet yet hapless schoolteacher. Fighting against the restraints of the town, Nomi's longing for a future of opportunity and hope sets her on course towards a climax at once startling and inevitable.

Boy of Good Breeding

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

120 kr

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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 prime minister has promised to pay a visit to whichever town in Canada has the smallest population. Algren has held this position for some time but recent baby booms and returning families, like Knute, threaten to tip Algren over the magic 1500 . . .

Flying Troutmans

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

124 kr

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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 PostMeet the Troutmans. Hattie is living in Paris, city of romance, but has just been dumped by her boyfriend. Min, her sister back in Canada, is going through a particularly dark period. And Min's two kids, Logan and Thebes, are not talking and talking way too much, respectively. When Hattie receives a phone call from eleven-year-old Thebes, begging her to return to Canada, she arrives home to find Min on her way to a psychiatric ward, and becomes responsible for her niece and nephew. Realising that she is way out of her league, Hattie hatches a plan to find the kids' long-lost father. With only the most tenuous lead to go on, she piles Logan and Thebes into the family van, and they head south . . .

Irma Voth

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

124 kr

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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 closeted life of nineteen-year-old Irma Voth, recently married and more recently deserted, is turned on its head when a film crew arrives. They have come to make a movie about the strict Mennonite community in which she and her family live. Against her family's wishes, Irma takes a job on set and glimpses the wider world and a path towards something that feels like freedom.

Summer of My Amazing Luck

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

120 kr

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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 TimesLucy and her eight-month-old son live in a Winnipeg housing project filled with single mothers on the dole. Still dealing with her own mother's sudden death, and new to the ever-multiplying complications of life on welfare, Lucy strikes up a friendship with her neighbour, Lish. On the whole, they're pretty happy . . . But Lucy wants to make sure they stay happy. And she has a plan.Told with Toews's signature scalding wit and deep compassion, Summer of my Amazing Luck is a brilliantly funny book about the intricacies of friendship, grief, and poverty.'[A] picaresque account of two welfare moms having loopy adventures and getting by in the city... The novel's voice [is] amused, warm, curious, alive on the page.' The New Yorker

Fight Night

'A Gem: humour and hope in the face of suffering' Observer

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

205 kr

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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____________You are a small thing, and you must learn to fight.Swiv has taken this advice too literally. Now she's suspended from school, in the care of her foul-mouthed, hilarious grandmother. Mom is busy being pregnant, so Grandma gives Swiv a very different education. Swiv learns maths with Amish jigsaws and How to Dig a Winter Grave. Grandma's methods may be unorthodox, but she has faced the worst of life with a wild, independent spirit and this is what she hopes to pass on. Time is running short. Grandma's health is failing and the baby is on the way - can Grandma inspire this fire in Swiv, and ensure it never goes out?Poignant, hilarious and deeply moving, Fight Night is a girl's love letter to the women raising her and a tribute to one family's fighting spirit.'A love letter to our brave and brilliant matriarchs.' Glamour'Miriam Toews is a genius.' R. O. Kwon'As compelling and hilarious and indecently sad as life can be.' Financial Times

Women Talking

The Oscar-winning film starring Rooney Mara, Jessie Buckley and Claire Foy

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

147 kr

Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar

**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 wit.' The Times'An astonishment, a volcano of a novel.' LAUREN GROFFIn a remote Mennonite colony, over a hundred girls and women were knocked unconscious and violated-by what many thought were ghosts or demons-as punishment for their sins. Their accounts were chalked up to 'wild female imagination.' Women Talking is an imagined response to these real events. When the women learn that they were in fact drugged and attacked by men in their community, they hold a secret meeting in a hayloft. They have two days to make a plan before the rapists are bailed out and brought home: will they dare to escape?'Profound, affecting stuff.' Sunday Telegraph'Brave and thoughtful.' Observer

Women Talking

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

603 kr

Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar

Women Talking

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

258 kr

Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar

All My Puny Sorrows

1

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

278 kr

Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar

A Truce That Is Not Peace

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

328 kr

Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar

Swing Low: A Life

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

256 kr

Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar

The Flying Troutmans

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

275 kr

Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar

A Boy of Good Breeding

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

275 kr

Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar

Summer of My Amazing Luck

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

258 kr

Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar

Kvinnor som pratar

2

Inbunden, Svenska, 2022

280 kr

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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 kvinnor om nätterna.

Många av kvinnorna tror att de blivit överfallna av demoner och deras vittnesmål avfärdas som kvinnlig hysteri. Nu samlas kvinnorna till rådslag om de ska stanna och förlåta eller ge sig av ut i en för dem okänd omvärld, de som inte tillåtits lära sig läsa och enbart pratar plattyska i ett spansktalande land.

Kvinnor som pratar är kanadensiska Miriam Toews explosiva roman vars rappa dialog trollbinder läsaren och om vilken Margaret Atwood skrivit:

Missa den inte! Denna fantastiska, sorgliga, chockerande, men gripande roman, baserad på verkliga händelser, kunde vara tagen direkt från Tjänarinnans berättelse.

"En litterär liten pärla." - SvD

"Glöder med ett trollbindande sken." - Kulturnytt

"En stor läsupplevelse där både hjärta och hjärna tas i anspråk." - DN

"Explosion av smärta, skönhet, kärlek och intelligens." - Aftonbladet

"Intressant, vasst och roligt." - Sydsvenskan

Nyhet

En vapenvila som inte är fred

Inbunden, Svenska, 2026

275 kr

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"Varför skriver jag? Det är frågan som en litteraturfestival ber Miriam Toews att svara på. Gång på gång misslyckas hon med att formulera ett svar, och för varje nytt försök avtäcker hon nya lager av sorg, skuld och tomhet kopplade till sin systers självmord. Hon inser att det var systern som en gång bad henne att skriva och att det är med henne hon sedan dess befinner sig i ständig korrespondens.

Med lika delar sorg som humor skildrar Miriam Toews i En vapenvila som inte är fred ett skrivande som sedan decennier möts med dödens tystnad från systern men som håller hennes familj vid liv.

Miriam toews är född 1964 i Steinbach i Kanada och bosatt i Toronto. Hon debuterade 1996 och finns på svenska utgiven med Kvinnor som pratar, Ensamma strider och Mina futtiga små sorger.Toews räknas idag till en av Kanadas främsta författare med en ojämförbar förmåga att väga samman det komiska med det tragiska, ett förhållningssätt till livet hon också försöker svara på i En vapenvila som inte är fred.