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TRUCE THAT IS NOT PEACE, A
MIRIAM TOEWS
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Summary
In this breathtaking memoir of stunning emotional force and electrifying honesty, one of Canada's most iconic writers tells her own story for the first time.
“Why do you write?” the organizer of a literary event in Mexico City asks Miriam Toews. Each attempt at an answer from Toews—all of them unsatisfactory to the organizer—surfaces new layers of grief, guilt, and futility connected to her sister’s suicide more than fifteen years ago. She has been keeping up, she realizes, a decades-old internal correspondence with her beloved sibling, attempting to fill a silence she can barely comprehend. As Toews turns to face that silence, we come to see that the question "why I write" is as impossible to answer as deciding whether to live life as a comedy or a tragedy.
A masterwork of nonfiction, A Truce That Is Not Peace explores the uneasy pact every creative person makes with memory. Wildly original yet intimately, powerfully precise; momentous, hilarious, wrenching and joyful—this is Miriam Toews at her dazzling best, remaking her personal world and inventing a brilliant literary form to hold it.
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$34.00
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Category:
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Author:
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MIRIAM TOEWS
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Title:
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TRUCE THAT IS NOT PEACE, A
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Release date:
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26 August 2025
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Editor:
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KNOPF CANADA
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Subject:
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DIVERS
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ISBN:
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9781039056206 (1039056202)
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Renaud-Bray Reference:
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20774096
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Item nb:
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4340951
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TRUCE THAT IS NOT PEACE, A
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TOEWS, MIRIAM
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KNOPF CANADA
2025
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