Women Talking by Miriam Toews

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

FINALIST FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARD

The internationally bestselling novel based on real events—by the award-winning author of All My Puny Sorrows and A Complicated Kindness.

Now a major motion picture starring Frances McDormand, Rooney Mara, Claire Foy and Jessie Buckley—adapted and directed by Sarah Polley.

For several years, girls and women in the remote Mennonite colony of Molotschna have reported assaults in the night by what some in the community claim are ghosts or demons. Others blame “wild female imagination”—until several of the men behind the attacks are discovered and apprehended. While the men of the colony go into town to bail out the accused, the women meet secretly in a hayloft to determine how to respond. They have just two days to decide what to do before the men return. Acerbic, funny, tender and wise, acclaimed author Miriam Toews’s spellbinding seventh novel contains a universe of revelatory thinking about gender, justice, freedom and power.

Story Locale: Molotschna Colony (an imagined Mennonite community in South America)

MIRIAM TOEWS’ most recent novel, the bestselling All My Puny Sorrows, was published in 2014 to wide acclaim. It won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Folio Prize and the Wellcome Book Prize, among other accolades. It also appeared on many year-end best-book lists, nationally and internationally. Toews is the author of five other bestselling novels: Summer of My Amazing Luck, A Boy of Good Breeding, A Complicated Kindness (winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, winner of Canada Reads, and a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize), The Flying Troutmans and Irma Voth, and one work of non-fiction, Swing Low: A Life. In addition to the awards mentioned above, she has also won the Libris Award for Fiction Book of the Year, the Writers’ Trust Marian Engel/Timothy Findley Award, and Italy’s Sinbad Award for Fiction. Miriam Toews lives in Toronto.

Author Residence: Toronto, Ontario

Author Hometown: Winnipeg, Manitoba

9780735273979
Paperback , Trade
English
General Trade
Sep 03, 2019