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Women Talking

Auteur(s): Miriam Toews
Narrateur(s): Matthew Edison
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 A FINALIST FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD: A transformative and necessary work--as completely unexpected as it is inspired--by the award-winning author of the bestselling novels All My Puny Sorrows and A Complicated Kindness.

The sun rises on a quiet June morning in 2009. August Epp sits alone in the hayloft of a barn, anxiously bent over his notebook. He writes quickly, aware that his solitude will soon be broken. Eight women--ordinary grandmothers, mothers and teenagers; yet to August, each one extraordinary-- will climb the ladder into the loft, and the day's true task will begin. This task will be both simple and subversive: August, like the women, is a traditional Mennonite, and he has been asked to record a secret conversation.

Thus begins Miriam Toews' spellbinding novel. Gradually, as we hear the women's vivid voices console, tease, admonish, regale and debate each other, we piece together the reason for the gathering: they have forty-eight hours to make a life-altering choice on behalf of all the women and children in the colony. And like a vast night sky coming into view behind the bright sparks of their voices, we learn of the devastating events that have led to this moment.

Acerbic, funny, tender, sorrowful and wise, Women Talking is composed of equal parts humane love and deep anger. It is award-winning writer Miriam Toews' most astonishing novel to date, containing within its two short days and hayloft setting an expansive, timeless universe of thinking and feeling about women--and men--in our contemporary world. Fiction Fiction de genre Fiction féminine Fiction littéraire Inspirant Drôle Sincère Émouvant Du contenu qui fait réfléchir Amish
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Having read Toews’ “A Complicated Kindness” and come out the other side heavy with emotion and haunted, I was excited to undertake this topic with Toews - a former Mennonite. At first I thought the books narrator/narrative would bother me, but I quickly became spellbound because of Toews’ gift for language and designing characters. I would highly recommend this book to others and would suggest giving it your full attention so you can dig more deeply into the story she weaves and topics she tackles. #Audible1

Toews does it again

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After seeing the film, it is a pure joy to listen to this book, even when the story is heart breaking. The film is a really great adaptation. Thank you to Miriam Toews and Sarah Polley.

Fantastic

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So well written. Dialogue exquisite. The dialogue really drew me into the sentiment of the characters. I felt a part of the colony while reading and listening the novel. I could readily sense the environment, the landscape, the people, the smells, the structures, the tensions, the voices ... the agony. The dramatization was well done. In a word, I savoured the story and wanted it to continue. Bravo, Miriam , for yet another moving insight into why people behave the way they do.

A must read

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what an incredible story of the power and resilience of women and sisterhood. I loved this book. I found my own healing and strength within it

incredible

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I like Miriam Toews but this book was pretty dull. A lot of talk but no plot whatsoever.

Not Toews Best Work

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