by Miriam Toews · Faber & Faber · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571305292
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«All My Puny Sorrows» is Miriam Toews's literary fiction novel, published by Faber & Faber in paperback (336 pages, in English).
Sisters Elf and Yoli are very close: Elf, a world-famous pianist, rich and happily married, wants to die; Yoli, divorced and broke, wants to keep her alive. When Elf is admitted to hospital after a suicide attempt, Yoli faces the question of how far love goes and whether she should let her go.
Shortlisted for the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the 2015 Wellcome Book Prize; winner of the 2014 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the 2015 Canadian Authors Association Award.
For readers of literary fiction and contemporary narrative seeking stories about family, mental health, and bonds between sisters.
Miriam Toews is a Canadian writer and author of ten books, including A Complicated Kindness (2004), All My Puny Sorrows (2014), and Women Talking (2018). She has won a number of literary prizes including the Governor General's Award for Fiction and the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award for her body of work. Toews is also a three-time finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and a two-time winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.
