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Pocket, Svenska, 2025
89 kr
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
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
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.
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
122 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
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.
Inbunden, Svenska, 2025
304 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.
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
132 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
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
210 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
E-bok
Engelska, 2025143 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
Ljudbok
Engelska, 2025172 kr
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THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA 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 CLAIREA 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
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
132 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
Ljudbok
Engelska, 2025213 kr
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'Witty and daring ... with a hearse-black wit and a quiet wisdom' GUARDIAN'A profoundly affecting book' TORONTO STARInternationally 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 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.Reverberating with emotional power, authenticity, and insight, Swing Low is a humane, inspiring story of a remarkable man, father, and teacher.
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Engelska, 2025239 kr
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The debut novel from the bestselling author of Women Talking, written with her signature wit and compassion.Lucy 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.
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Engelska, 2025231 kr
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A wonderfully warm, witty and wise novel of small-town dreams and eccentric families.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 ...
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Engelska, 2025172 kr
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THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA 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 CLAIREA 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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Engelska, 201168 kr
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This novel about a daughter estranged from her religious family “combines an intimate coming-of-age tale with picaresque and extremely effective prose” (Publishers Weekly).In a rare coming-of-age novel that blends dark truths with uplifting transformations, acclaimed author Miriam Toews delivers the story of a young Mennonite woman, vulnerable yet wise beyond her years, who carries the burden of a terrible family secret with her during a remarkable journey of survival and redemption. Irma Voth, from the award-winning author of Swing Low and A Complicated Kindness, is a poignant and elegant exploration of one woman’s difficult odyssey to discover her own potential—a path that leads her away from her close-knit community and into the wide and unknown world beyond. “The nicely drawn contrast between what Irma knows and suspects and what the reader understands about her world gives Irma Voth a suspenseful charge from the first pages.” —Jane Smiley, Globe and Mail (Toronto)“A literary novel marked by charm, wit and an original approach to language.” —Kirkus Reviews“Toews . . . is clearly an artistic powerhouse.” —The Gazette“There is something quite mesmerizing about Toews’s prose. It’s to do with the rhythm of her language, with the seeming effortlessness of it and, when combined with her quick, offhand wit, it can enliven even the darkest of moments.” —Toronto Star“Toews’s ability to generate comedy and heartache at the same time just soars.” —Maclean’s“Wryly funny and perceptive.” —National Post“A beautiful, heartbreaking novel. . . . Calls to mind Ann-Marie MacDonald’s 1996 epic, Fall On Your Knees.” —Winnipeg Free Press
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Engelska, 2009280 kr
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"Min was stranded in her bed, hooked on the blue torpedoes and convinced that a million silver cars were closing in on her (I didn''t know what Thebes meant either), Logan was in trouble at school, something about the disturbing stories he was writing, Thebes was pretending to be Min on the phone with his principal, the house was crumbling around them, the black screen door had blown off in the wind, a family of aggressive mice was living behind the piano, the neighbours were pissed off because of hatchets being thrown into their yard at night (again, confusing, something to do with Logan) … basically, things were out of control. And Thebes is only eleven."–from The Flying TroutmansDays after being dumped by her boyfriend Marc in Paris – "he was heading off to an ashram and said we could communicate telepathically" – Hattie hears her sister Min has been checked into a psychiatric hospital, and finds herself flying back to Winnipeg to take care of Thebes and Logan, her niece and nephew. Not knowing what else to do, she loads the kids, a cooler, and a pile of CDs into their van and they set out on a road trip in search of the children''s long-lost father, Cherkis.In part because no one has any good idea where Cherkis is, the traveling matters more than the destination. On their wayward, eventful journey down to North Dakota and beyond, the Troutmans stay at scary motels, meet helpful hippies, and try to ignore the threatening noises coming from under the hood of their van. Eleven-year-old Thebes spends her time making huge novelty cheques with arts and crafts supplies in the back, and won''t wash, no matter how wild and matted her purple hair gets; she forgot to pack any clothes. Four years older, Logan carves phrases like "Fear Yourself" into the dashboard, and repeatedly disappears in the middle of the night to play basketball; he''s in love, he says, with New York Times columnist Deborah Solomon. Meanwhile, Min can''t be reached at the hospital, and, more than once, Hattie calls Marc in tears.But though it might seem like an escape from crisis into chaos, this journey is also desperately necessary, a chance for an accidental family to accept, understand or at least find their way through overwhelming times. From interwoven memories and scenes from the past, we learn much more about them: how Min got so sick, why Cherkis left home, why Hattie went to Paris, and what made Thebes and Logan who they are today.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 funny detail, The Flying Troutmans is a uniquely affecting novel.From the Hardcover edition.
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Engelska, 2011188 kr
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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 Irma Voth lives in a Mennonite community in northern Mexico, surrounded by desert and both physically and culturally isolated from the surrounding towns and cities. It’s been six years since her family up and left Canada to escape the prying eyes of the government and preserve their religious freedom, but Irma still misses the minor freedoms she had in their small town. She even misses the cold. This new life has not been an easy one, and Irma finds herself deserted by her husband of one year, who has left to pursue a life of drug-running, instead of working her family’s farm. The most devastating blow for Irma is that he didn’t take her with him, take her away, so now she’s left to live under her father’s domineering rule alone. Things change for Irma when a film crew moves into the empty house next door. They’ve come to make a movie about the Mennonite community, and have made a deal with Irma’s father to stay on their land. The director enlists Irma to work for them as a translator, as she can speak not only Spanish and English but Plattdeutsch, or Low German, the language of her people. At first bemused by the ragged and absurd crewmembers, Irma comes to embrace the passion and creative freedom of their world – but in doing so brings on the wrath of her father, who is determined to keep her from it at all costs. When Irma’s thirteen-year-old sister Aggie begins to come by and spend time with the crew, their father is sent over the edge with rage, and Irma is forced to make a hard decision to save not only herself, but her younger sister, and to break the dark chain of violence holding her family. The girls flee to the city, not knowing where they’ll find food or shelter, let alone build a life, but knowing for the first time that they are free to make that choice. And even as they begin to understand the truth of the tragedy that has their family in its grip, Irma and Aggie use their love as a source of strength to help each other move on from their past lives and work toward a future that can truly become anything they want it to be.
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Engelska, 2011116 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 religous community in which she and her family live. She is drawn to the creative passion and warmth of their world but her domineering father is determined to keep her from it at all costs. The confrontation between them sets her on an irrevocable path towards something that feels like freedom as she and her young sister, Aggie, wise beyond her teenage years, flee to the city, upheld only by their love for each other and their smart wit, even as they begin 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?The new novel from Miriam Toews returns to the subject of a Mennonite community, so powerfully rendered in her award-winning, number-one bestseller A Complicated Kindness.
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
127 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.
E-bok
Engelska, 2014116 kr
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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 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.Miriam Toews's All My Puny Sorrows, at once tender and unquiet, offers a profound reflection on the limits of love, and the sometimes unimaginable challenges we experience when childhood becomes a new country of adult commitments and responsibilities.'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'[Miriam 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 'Toews takes her place alongside Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Margaret Atwood and Mordicai Richler as the loveliest quintet of Canadian writing.' Los Angeles Times
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
122 kr
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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 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
E-bok
Engelska, 2018116 kr
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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 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
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
122 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.
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
123 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 . . .
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
122 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 . . .
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
122 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.
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
119 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
E-bok
Engelska, 2022116 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
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
145 kr
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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 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