Soon to be a major motion picture, Women Talking is a profound, unsettling novel from the award-winning author of Fight Night and All My Puny Sorrows.

Informationen zum Autor Miriam Toews is the author of seven bestselling 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 A profound, unsettling novel from the award-winning author of All My Puny Sorrows, soon to be a major film starring Frances McDormand, Rooney Mara and Ben Whishaw. Vorwort Soon to be a major motion picture, Women Talking is a profound, unsettling novel from the award-winning author of Fight Night and 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
Soon to be a major motion picture, Women Talking is a profound, unsettling novel from the award-winning author of Fight Night and All My Puny Sorrows.

Autorentext
Miriam Toews is the author of seven bestselling 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

Between 2005 and 2009, in a remote religious Mennonite colony, over a hundred girls and women were knocked unconscious and raped, often repeatedly, by what many thought were ghosts or demons, as a punishment for their sins.

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. . . a novel for the times.'** LISA McINERNEY
'Tender, enraging and brimming with a bitter wit.' The Times
**'An astonishment, a volcano of a novel.'** LAUREN GROFF

In a remote Mennonite colony, over a hundred girls and women were knocked unconscious and violated-by what many thought were ghosts or demons-as punishment for their sins. Their accounts were chalked up to 'wild female imagination.'

Women Talking is an imagined response to these real events. When the women learn that they were in fact drugged and attacked by men in their community, they hold a secret meeting in a hayloft. They have two days to make a plan before the rapists are bailed out and brought home: will they dare to escape?

'Profound, affecting stuff.' Sunday Telegraph
**'Brave and thoughtful.'** Observer