Book
Women talking : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 0571340334
- ISBN: 9780571340330
- ISBN: 1635574242
- ISBN: 9781635574241
- ISBN: 1635572584
- ISBN: 9781635572582
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Physical Description:
216 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
print - Publisher: New York, NY : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
Content descriptions
| Summary, etc.: | 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. Now that the women have learned they were in fact drugged and attacked by a group of men from their own community, they are determined to protect themselves and their daughters from future harm. While the men of the colony are off in the city, attempting to raise enough money to bail out the rapists and bring them home, these women--all illiterate, without any knowledge of the world outside their community and unable even to speak the language of the country they live in--have very little time to make a choice: Should they stay in the only world they've ever known or should they dare to escape? Based on real events and told through the "minutes" of the women's all-female symposium, Toews's...novel uses wry, politically engaged humor to relate this tale of women claiming their own power to decide--Publisher's description. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Conspiracies Fiction Misogyny Fiction Rape Fiction Mennonite women Fiction |
| Genre: | Psychological fiction. |
Available copies
- 34 of 37 copies available at Bibliomation.
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- 0 current holds with 37 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morris Public Library | FIC TOE (Text) | 33460142017372 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Norfolk Library | FIC TOE (Text) | 36058010266118 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| North Branch - Bridgeport | FIC TOEWS (Text) | 34000081459489 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Oliver Wolcott Library - Litchfield | FIC TOEWS, M (Text) | 36123132912682 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Putnam Public Library | TOEWS (Text) | 33610142810503 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 04/30/2024 |
| Rockville Public Library | F TOE (Text) | 34035125438628 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Scoville Memorial Library - Salisbury | FIC TOEWS (Text) | 37538144464928 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Sherman Library | F TOE (Text) | 34060144512971 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Silas Bronson Library - Waterbury | FIC TOEWS, M (Text) | 34005145461983 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Somers Public Library | FIC TOE (Text) | 34042145486934 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Women Talking
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Author Notes
Women Talking
Miriam Toews was born in 1964 in Canada. She is best known for her novels A Complicated Kindness and All My Puny Sorrows. She has won a number of literary prizes including the Governor General's Award for Fiction and the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award for body of work. She is also a two-time finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and a two-time winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Toews had a leading role in the feature film Silent Light, written and directed by Mexican filmmaker, Carlos Reygadas and winner of the 2007 Cannes Jury Prize, an experience that influenced her fifth novel, Irma Voth. (Bowker Author Biography)
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