by Miriam Toews · Les Hores · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788494904981
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In 'Women Talking', Miriam Toews presents a moving story based on real events. Eight Mennonite women meet in secret to make a crucial decision: stay in the community they have always known, or dare to leave it. For two years, these women and other young girls in the colony have been victims of sexual assault. Now, determined to protect themselves and their daughters, they must choose between the safety of the known and the uncertainty of a future outside their community. A novel that explores themes of faith, trauma, and resilience with a unique and powerful voice.
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.
