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Women Talking (2018) is the seventh novel by Canadian writer Miriam Toews. Toews describes her novel as "an imagined response to real events," the gas-facilitated rapes that took place on the Manitoba Colony, a remote and isolated Mennonite community in Bolivia: [1] Between 2005 and 2009, over a hundred girls and women in the colony woke up to ...
Aug 21, 2018 · Miriam Toews. One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past two years, each of these women, and more than a hundred other girls in their colony, has been repeatedly violated in the night by demons coming to punish them for their sins.
Women Talking: A Novel Paperback – Sept. 3 2019. by Miriam Toews (Author) 3.9 6,177 ratings. See all formats and editions. NATIONAL BESTSELLER. FINALIST FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD. The internationally bestselling novel based on real events—by the award-winning author of All My Puny Sorrows and A Complicated Kindness.
- Miriam Toews
Apr 6, 2019 · The Canadian writer Miriam Toews opens her astonishing eighth novel, Women Talking, with a matter-of-fact Author's Note. Between 2005 and 2009, she explains, eight men in a remote Mennonite...
Mar 3, 2020 · Based on real events and told through the “minutes” of the women’s all-female symposium, Toews’s masterful novel uses wry, politically engaged humor to relate this tale of women claiming their own power to decide.
- Miriam Toews
Based on real events and told through the “minutes” of the women's all-female symposium, Toews's masterful novel uses wry, politically engaged humor to relate this tale of women claiming their own power to decide.
- Miriam Toews
Mar 31, 2019 · Miriam Toews' new book Women Talking is based on a ghastly true story — here's the opening sentence: "Between 2005 and 2009, in a remote Mennonite colony in Bolivia, many girls and women...
