{"product_id":"women-talking-miriam-toews","title":"Women Talking (Miriam Toews)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**READ THE BOOK BEFORE YOU WATCH THE MAJOR FILM STARRING CLAIRE FOY, JESSIE BUCKLEY, ROONEY MARA AND BEN WHISHAW**\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Don't miss this.' \u003c\/b\u003eMARGARET ATWOOD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Beautiful. . . a novel for the times.' \u003c\/b\u003eLISA McINERNEY\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Tender, enraging and brimming with a bitter wit.' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'An astonishment, a volcano of a novel.' \u003c\/b\u003eLAUREN GROFF\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.' \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWomen 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Profound, affecting stuff.' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Brave and thoughtful.' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eMiriam Toews is the author of seven bestselling novels: \u003ci\u003eSummer of My \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmazing Luck\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Boy of Good Breeding\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Complicated Kindness,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlying Troutmans\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIrma Voth\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e All My Puny Sorrows \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWomen Talking\u003c\/i\u003e and one work of non-fiction, \u003ci\u003eSwing Low: A Life\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Englisch, 240 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65889306181981,"sku":"K077112786","price":11.3,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/7711278600001A.jpg?v=1789103441","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/women-talking-miriam-toews","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}