Product Details
- Publisher: Vintage Canada (2019-09-03)
- Language: English
- Paperback: 240 pages
- ISBN-13: 9780735273979
- Item Weight: 243.81 grams
- Dimensions: 7.99 x 5.16 x 0.67 cm
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
FINALIST FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD
The internationally bestselling novel based on real events—by the award-winning author of All My Puny Sorrows and A Complicated Kindness.
Now a major motion picture starring Frances McDormand, Rooney Mara, Claire Foy and Jessie Buckley—adapted and directed by Sarah Polley.
For several years, girls and women in the remote Mennonite colony of Molotschna have reported assaults in the night by what some in the community claim are ghosts or demons. Others blame “wild female imagination”—until several of the men behind the attacks are discovered and apprehended. While the men of the colony go into town to bail out the accused, the women meet secretly in a hayloft to determine how to respond. They have just two days to decide what to do before the men return. 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.
About the Author
MIRIAM TOEWS is the author of many bestselling novels: Fight Night, Women Talking, All My Puny Sorrows, Summer of My Amazing Luck, A Boy of Good Breeding, A Complicated Kindness, The Flying Troutmans, and Irma Voth, and one work of non-fiction, Swing Low: A Life. She is a winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, the Libris Award for Fiction Book of the Year, the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and the Writers' Trust Engel Findley Award. She lives in Toronto.
