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A Truce That Is Not Peace
- Author
- Miriam Toews
- Narrator
- Miriam Toews
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish Date
- 26 August 2025
- Run Time
- 3 hours 45 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
"Essential reading. A companion for turbulent times."—Laura van den Berg
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.
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Details
- Author
- Miriam Toews
- Narrator
- Miriam Toews
- Duration
- 3 hours 45 minutes
- Release Date
- 26 August 2025
- ISBN
- 9798897568147
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Genre
- Memoirs, Creative writing and creative writing guides, Language learning: writing skills, Biography: general, Gender studies: women and girls
Synopsis
"Essential reading. A companion for turbulent times."—Laura van den Berg 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.
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