A Complicated Kindness
Winner of the Governor General's Award 2004
(Sprache: Englisch)
A work of fierce originality and brilliance, Miriam Toews'novel explores the ties that bind families together and the forces that tear them apart. It is the world according to Nomi Nickel,a heartbreakingly bewildered and wry young woman trapped in a small...
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A work of fierce originality and brilliance, Miriam Toews'novel explores the ties that bind families together and the forces that tear them apart. It is the world according to Nomi Nickel,a heartbreakingly bewildered and wry young woman trapped in a small Mennonite town that seeks to set her on the path to righteousness and smother her at the same time.'Half of our family, the better-looking half, is missing,'Nomi tells us at the beginning of A Complicated Kindness. Left alone with her father Ray, her days are spent piecing together the reasons her mother Trudie and her sister Tash have gone missing, and trying to figure out what she can do to avoid a career at Happy Family Farms, a chicken abattoir on the outskirts of East Village - not the neighbourhood in Manhattan where Nomi most wants to live but the small town in southern Manitoba. East Village is ministered by Hans, Nomi's pious uncle, otherwise known as The Mouth.
As Nomi gets to the bottom of the truth behind her mother's and sister's disappearances, she finds herself on a direct collision course with her uncle and the only community she has ever known. In this funny, compassionate and moving novel, Miriam Toews has created a character who will stay in the hearts of readers long after they've put the book down.
As Nomi gets to the bottom of the truth behind her mother's and sister's disappearances, she finds herself on a direct collision course with her uncle and the only community she has ever known. In this funny, compassionate and moving novel, Miriam Toews has created a character who will stay in the hearts of readers long after they've put the book down.
Autoren-Porträt von Miriam Toews
Miriam Toews wurde in Steinbach geboren, einer Mennonitengemeinde im Staat Manitoba. Sie studierte Geisteswissenschaften und Journalismus und lebt heute als Journalistin und Autorin in Winnipeg. Für ihre bisherigen Bücher erhielt sie zahlreiche Preise und Stipendien. Ein komplizierter Akt der Liebe, in Kanada ein Bestseller, wurde mit dem renommierten Governor General s Literary Award ausgezeichnet. 2006 hatte Miriam Toews ihr Debüt als Schauspielerin: Sie spielte in Carlos Reygadas Film Stilles Licht, der demnächst in deutschen Kinos zu sehen sein wird.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Miriam Toews
- 2005, Export, 256 Seiten, Maße: 11,3 x 17,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Faber & Faber, London
- ISBN-10: 0571227074
- ISBN-13: 9780571227075
Sprache:
Englisch
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"'Toews' novel is a wonderfully acute, moving, warm, sceptical, frustrated portrait of fundamentalist religion.' Guardian; 'Toews deserves to be up there with other top-notch writers - Margaret Atwood, Rohinton Mistry, Yann Martel - who have come out of Canada over the past few years.' Scotland on Sunday"
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