Informationen zum Autor Miriam Toews (pronounced tâves) was born in 1964 in the small Mennonite town of Steinbach, Manitoba. She has published four novels and a memoir of her father, and is the recipient of numerous literary awards including the Governor General's Award, the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award (twice), and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. In 2007 she made her screen debut in the film Luz silenciosa . She was nominated for Best Actress at Mexico's Ariel Awards for her performance., Miriam Toews (pronounced tâves) was born in 1964 in the small Mennonite town of Steinbach, Manitoba. She has published seven novels and a memoir of her father, and is the recipient of numerous literary awards including the Governor General's Award, the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award (twice), and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Miriam Toews is the author of seven novels: Summer of My Amazing Luck , A Boy of Good Breeding , A Complicated Kindness, The Flying Troutmans , Irma Voth , All My Puny Sorrows, and Women Talking, and one work of non-fiction, Swing Low: A Life . She is a winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction, the Libris Award for Fiction Book of the Year, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and the Writers Trust Marian Engel/ Timothy Findley Award. She lives in Toronto. Klappentext Inspired by the scapegoating of beatings and rapes of Mennonite women on to 'punishing spirits' across the early 2000s, this novel imagines the Mennonite women gathering in secret to discuss how best to fight to defend themselves, isolated in a remote community in a country where they do not speak the language. From the author of the acclaimed "All My Puny Sorrows". Zusammenfassung 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....

Vorwort
A profound, unsettling novel from the award-winning author of All My Puny Sorrows.

Autorentext

Miriam Toews (pronounced tâves) was born in 1964 in the small Mennonite
town of Steinbach, Manitoba. She has published four novels and
a memoir of her father, and is the recipient of numerous literary awards
including the Governor General's Award, the McNally Robinson Book
of the Year Award (twice), and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.
In 2007 she made her screen debut in the film Luz silenciosa. She was
nominated for Best Actress at Mexico's Ariel Awards for her performance., Miriam Toews (pronounced tâves) was born in 1964 in the small Mennonite town of Steinbach, Manitoba. She has published seven novels and a memoir of her father, and is the recipient of numerous literary awards including the Governor General's Award, the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award (twice), and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.

Miriam Toews is the author of seven novels: Summer of My Amazing Luck, A Boy of Good Breeding, A Complicated Kindness, The Flying Troutmans, Irma Voth, All My Puny Sorrows, and Women Talking, and one work of non-fiction, Swing Low: A Life. She is a winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction, the Libris Award for Fiction Book of the Year, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and the Writers Trust Marian Engel/ Timothy Findley Award. She lives in Toronto.

Klappentext
Inspired by the scapegoating of beatings and rapes of Mennonite women on to 'punishing spirits' across the early 2000s, this novel imagines the Mennonite women gathering in secret to discuss how best to fight to defend themselves, isolated in a remote community in a country where they do not speak the language. From the author of the acclaimed "All My Puny Sorrows".

Zusammenfassung
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.