Women Talking

CD - unabridged
(5 CDs)
Product Number: CX4422
Released: 01 Oct, 2018
Business Term: Purchase
ISBN: #9781528820295
Narrator(s): Matthew Edison
Publisher: W F Howes
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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.

Author(s): Miriam Toews
Original Publish Date: 01 Oct, 2018

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MP3 CD
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Author(s): Miriam Toews
Narrator(s): Matthew Edison
Product Number MPCD3381
Released: 01 Oct, 2018
Business Term: Purchase
Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9781528820318
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Author(s): Miriam Toews
Narrator(s): Matthew Edison
Product Number D5906
Released: 01 Oct, 2018
Business Term: Purchase
Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9781528820301

Professional reviews

"A profound, unsettling and virtuosic piece of fiction from the award-winning author of All My Puny Sorrows. "Women Talking is an astonishment, a volcano of a novel with slowly and furiously mounting pressures of anguish and love and rage. No other book I've read in the past year has spoken so lucidly about our current moment, and yet none has felt as timeless; the always-wondrous Miriam Toews has written a book as close to a Greek tragedy as a contemporary Western novelist can come." LAUREN GROFF "Miriam Toews's Women Talking is a flawless, ferocious work of art. I have yet to read a more scathing indictment of patriarchal violence, or a more illuminating quest to comprehend the most vital contours of the human experience: what is agency, what is meaning, what is justice, what is love. This is the kind of novel that changes you. Get ready." LAURA VAN DEN BERG"

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