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A Truce That Is Not Peace

By Miriam Toews

A Truce That Is Not Peace

By Miriam Toews

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Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Autobiography NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER, TIME, THE WASHINGTON POST, THE WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS, NPR, LIT HUB, ELECTRIC LITERATURE, AND BOOKPAGE "Revelatory." --New York Times Book Review "Essential reading. A companion for turbulent times." --Laura van den Berg "Nothing short of a masterpiece." --The San Francisco Chronicle Internationally bestselling author Miriam Toews' memoir of the will to write--a work of disobedient memory, humor, and exquisite craft set against a content-hungry, prose-stuffed society. "Why do you write?" the organizer of a literary event in Mexico City asks Miriam Toews. Each attempted answer from Toews--all of them unsatisfactory to the organizer--surfaces new layers of grief, guilt, and futility connected to her sister's suicide. She has been keeping up, she realizes, 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. Marking the first time Toews has written her own life in nonfiction, A Truce That Is Not Peace explores the uneasy pact a writer makes with memory. Wildly inventive yet masterfully controlled; slyly casual yet momentous; wrenching and joyful; hilarious and humane--this is Miriam Toews at her dazzling best, remaking her world and inventing an astonishing new literary form to contain it.
Product details
Number of Pages:
192
Release Date:
2025-08-26
Publication Date:
2025-08-26
Publisher:
Bloomsbury USA
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1639734740
ISBN13:
9781639734740
Weight:
305 g
Height:
143 cm
Width:
211 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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