Women Talking (novel) - Wikipedia
Toews' novel centers on the secret meetings of eight Mennonite women who, on behalf of the other women in the colony, must decide how to react to these traumatic events. They have only 48 hours before the colony men, who are away to post bail for the rapists, return.
The True Story Behind Women Talking and Miriam Toews' Novel - TIME
Sep 14, 2022 · Women Talking, her 7th novel, uses the horrific rapes as the basis for an explanation of how women speak when they are living in a place that denies them that right. It’s an austere novel...
Book Review: 'Women Talking,' By Miriam Toews : NPR
Apr 6, 2019 · 'Women Talking' is a profoundly intelligent book. It is an indictment of authority and a defense of belief. As the novel progresses, the women become increasingly conscious of that future.
Women Talking by Miriam Toews - Goodreads
Aug 21, 2018 · 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 …
Amazon.com: Women Talking: A Novel: 9780735273962: Toews, Miriam: Books
Aug 21, 2018 · Taking minutes is the one man trusted and invited by the women to witness the conversation--a former outcast whose own surprising story is revealed as the women speak. By turns poignant, witty, acerbic, bitter, tender, devastating, and heartbreaking, the voices in this extraordinary novel are unforgettable.
- Reviews: 6.4K
- Author: Miriam Toews
Amazon.com: Women Talking: 9781635574340: Toews, Miriam: Books
Mar 3, 2020 · 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 …
Women Talking - Kindle edition by Toews, Miriam. Religion ...
Apr 2, 2019 · 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 …
- Reviews: 6.5K
- Author: Miriam Toews
‘Women Talking,’ by Miriam Toews, Is a Mennonite #MeToo …
Apr 10, 2019 · “Women Talking” is a wry, freewheeling novel of ideas that touches on the nature of evil, questions of free will, collective responsibility, cultural determinism and, above all, forgiveness.
Women Talking: A Novel - Miriam Toews - Google Books
It is award-winning writer Miriam Toews' most astonishing novel to date, containing within its two short days and hayloft setting an expansive, timeless universe of thinking and feeling about...
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Acerbic, funny, tender and wise, acclaimed author Miriam Toews’s spellbinding seventh novel contains a universe of revelatory thinking about gender, justice, freedom and power. Sold by Northern Oasis Enterprises and ships from Amazon Fulfillment. Some of these items ship sooner than the others. What are Popular Highlights?
- Reviews: 6.3K
- Author: Miriam Toews
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