Women Talking (ePub)

Name: Women Talking
Brand: Faber And Faber Ltd.
SKU: 105319607
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The Oscar-winning film starring Rooney Mara, Jessie Buckley and Claire Foy (Sprache: Englisch)

Autor: Miriam Toews

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Between 2005 and 2009, in a remote religious Mennonite colony, over a hundred girls and women were knocked unconscious and raped, often repeatedly, by what many thought were ghosts or demons, as a punishment for their sins. As the women tentatively began to share the details of the attacks-waking up sore and bleeding and not understanding why-their stories were chalked up to 'wild female imagination.'

Women Talking is an imagined response to these real events. Eight women, all illiterate, without any knowledge of the world outside their colony and unable even to speak the language of the country they live in, meet secretly in a hayloft with the intention of making a decision about how to protect themselves and their daughters from future harm. They have two days to make a plan, while the men of the colony are away in the city attempting to raise enough money to bail out the rapists (not ghosts as it turns out but local men) and bring them home.

How should we live? How should we love? How should we treat one another? How should we organise our societies? These are questions the women in Women Talking ask one another-and Miriam Toews makes them the questions we must all ask ourselves.

Autoren-Porträt von Miriam Toews

Miriam Toews is the author of six bestselling novels:
Summer of My Amazing Luck,
A Boy of Good Breeding,
A Complicated Kindness,The Flying Troutmans,
Irma Voth, and
All My Puny Sorrows, and one work of non-fiction,
Swing Low: A Life. She is a winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction, the Libris Award for Fiction Book of the Year, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and the Writers Trust Marian Engel/ Timothy Findley Award. She lives in Toronto.