A Truce That Is Not Peace - Miriam Toews - diskuze

THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2025‘The best memoir you will read all year’ NICK HORNBY‘A triumph – a meditation on writing, suicide, guilt and silence’ GUARDIAN‘Curious and idiosyncratic and enjoyable’ ZADIE SMITH‘Darkly moving and heart-wrenchingly funny’ MARIE CLAIREA book of the year in the Guardian, New Yorker, TIME, Washington Post, New Statesman, NPR,Irish Times and LitHub.The internationally bestselling author of Women Talking and All My Puny Sorrows, Miriam Toews, returns with a singular memoir celebrating disobedient memory, wit, writing and life. ‘Why do you write?’ the organiser of a literary event in Mexico City asks Miriam Toews. Each attempted answer from Toews – all of them unsatisfactory to the organiser – surfaces new layers of grief, guilt and futility connected to her sister’s suicide. She has been keeping up, she realises, a decades-old internal correspondence, filling a silence she barely understands. And we, her readers, come to see that the question is as impossible to answer as deciding whether to live life as a comedy or a tragedy.A Truce That Is Not Peace is the first time Toews has written about her own life in nonfiction. Wildly inventive yet masterfully controlled; wrenching and joyful – this is Miriam Toews at her dazzling best, remaking her world and inventing an astonishing new literary form to contain it.‘A grief memoir in the vein of Joan Didion’
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