by Miriam Toews · Vintage Canada · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780307400697
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«Irma Voth» is the literary fiction novel by Miriam Toews, published by Vintage Canada in paperback (272 pages, in English).
Irma Voth, a young woman from a Mennonite community in Mexico, lives isolated under her father's rule after being abandoned by her husband. When a film crew arrives at the neighbouring house, Irma works as a translator and discovers a world of creative freedom. Her father's violence pushes her to flee with her younger sister to Mexico City to start anew.
The work originally appeared in 2011; this Vintage Canada edition was published on 27 March 2012.
Recommended for readers of literary fiction and coming-of-age novels interested in stories about family, repression and the search for freedom.
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.
