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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.
Between 2005 and 2009, in a remote Mennonite colony, over one hundred girls and women were raped by what many thought were ghosts or demons. When the women learn the truth, they meet secretly to discuss how to protect themselves and their daughters from future harm.
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The true crime at the center of Miriam Toews’s novel “Women Talking” is unspeakable. It sounds like something from the Middle Ages or a dystopia by Margaret Atwood. But, in fact, these horrors took place only a decade ago in the Manitoba Mennonite colony in Bolivia.
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14 de set. de 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 that...
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- Esther Zuckerman
21 de ago. de 2018 · 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...
3 de mar. de 2020 · Women Talking tells the story of eight women's conversation as they decide what to do next: do nothing, stay and fight, or leave. Meeting in a hay loft, the women discuss the pros and cons of each option exploring such topics as healing, forgiveness, how they're perceived (less than animals), and their lack of education and inability ...
- Miriam Toews
21 de ago. de 2018 · Women Talking tells the story of eight women's conversation as they decide what to do next: do nothing, stay and fight, or leave. Meeting in a hay loft, the women discuss the pros and cons of each option exploring such topics as healing, forgiveness, how they're perceived (less than animals), and their lack of education and inability ...
- Miriam Toews
