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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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Great listen. The narrator was fantastic. The humour, humanity, and respect he conveyed with Toews words was illustrative. I grew up near a Mennnite community and know some Menonites so I felt what was reflected in the book was realistic and insightful.

Slow but appropriately so

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This is an amazing well written book. For people who were not happy with the fact that it was a male narrator... they should have kept listening because in chapter 2 or 3 we find out that the school teacher who's point of view the story is told from is a male so it would actually be weird to have a female narrate this story. Also if you know anything about traditional Mennonite culture you would understand why it is a male taking minutes in the meeting of women. The author does and excellent job explaining this in the story as well.

This is the first book I have ever read or listened to of this author. Her ability to weave the story and the research she put into it is very relevant and will be reading or listening to more by her.

The preface were we get to hear where the idea came from and the authors voice really set the tone and sent me down a research path into the story of the Manitoba colony in Bolivia in the early 2000's. Thank you so much for this great book!

Excellent!!

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Thank you Ms Toews for this brave, fierce, tender, compassionate, insightful, timely book. Such a difficult story to tell. Such a clever yet humane structure to the novel. Such an excellent ear for dialogue. Brava. I hope Women Talking wins every award available. You deserve it.

Deliver Us From Evil

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I had only read one other book by the author: A Complicated Kindess and was blown away by her writing. This also was a clever writing or a difficult subject. And choosing to have a man narrate the book was so interesting. Overall an excellent delivery of a true story in recent Canadian Mennonite history.

excellent delivery of a true story

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It’s amazing how, even in their isolation and indoctrination, the experience of these women leads them to want more for themselves and their children. That is the human condition.

A Very Human Experience

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