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. |
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Subject: | Conspiracies Fiction Misogyny Fiction Rape Fiction Mennonite women Fiction |
Genre: | Psychological fiction. |
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- 34 of 37 copies available at Bibliomation.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Edith Wheeler Memorial Library - Monroe | FIC TOEWS,M (Text) | 34026141876396 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Guilford Smith Library - South Windham | F TOE (Text) | 34059144292907 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Hall Memorial Library - Ellington | TOEWS, MIRIAM (Text) | 34037143285072 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Hotchkiss Library - Sharon | Fic Toe (Text) | 33660143372870 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Howard Whittemore Library - Naugatuck | FIC TOEWS, MIRIAM (Text) | 34027141440191 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
John P. Webster Library - West Hartford | PR 9199.3 .T611 W66 2019 (Text) | 30401141575344 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 05/05/2024 |
Kent Library Association - Kent | F TOE (Text) | 33410144706514 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Kent Memorial Library - Suffield | FICTION TOEWS (Text) | 32518144359760 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Mark Twain Library Association - Redding | FIC Toe (Text) | 33620143577571 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Milford Public Library | TOEWS Miriam (Text) | 34013143639030 | 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)