A truce that is not peace
Toews, Miriam, 1964-2025
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'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 every creative person makes with memory.
Main title:
A truce that is not peace / Miriam Toews.
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Imprint:
London : 4th Estate, 2025.London : 4th Estate, 2025.
Collation:
144 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9780008722845 (hbk)
Dewey class:
818.609
Language:
English
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BRN:
3062784