A Truce That Is Not Peace

Resumen del libro

The internationally bestselling author of Women Talking and All My Puny Sorrows, Miriam Toews, returns with a singular memoir celebrating disobedient memory, wit, writing and life. Why do you write?' the organiser of a literary event in Mexico City asks Miriam Toews. Each attempted answer from Toews all of them unsatisfactory to the organiser surfaces new layers of grief, guilt and futility connected to her sister's suicide. She has been keeping up, she realises, 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. A Truce That Is Not Peace is the first time Toews has written about her own life in nonfiction. Wildly inventive yet masterfully controlled; wrenching and joyful this is Miriam Toews at her dazzling best, remaking her world and inventing an astonishing new literary form to contain it.

Biografía del autor

Nació en Steinbach, Canadá, en 1964. Entre sus títulos más conocidos destacan las novelas Complicada bondad (Anagrama, 2007) y Ellas hablan (Sexto Piso, 2020). Su obra ha sido galardonada con una decena de premios, entre ellos los dos más importantes que puede recibir un autor canadiense: el Governor General's Award for Fiction y el Premio Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction (en dos ocasiones). Pequeñas desgracias sin importancia ha sido recientemente adaptada al cine.