New Releases by Miriam Toews

"This saga of bad luck and good company is a wry, scary, heartfelt ode to the traverses we have to make in life when we''re at the end of our rope and there''s no net below us." —ELLE From the author of Women Talking—now an Academy Award-winning film starring Claire Foy, Rooney Mara, Frances McDormand, and Jessie Buckley When Hattie''s moody boyfriend dumps her in Paris, she returns home to find that her sister Min is in the psych ward again. Freaked out by the prospect of becoming a surrogate mother to Min''s kids, Logan and Thebes, Hattie decides to take them in the family van to find their father, last heard to be running an idiosyncratic art gallery in South Dakota. What ensues is a remarkable journey across America, as aunt and kids—through chaos as diverse as their personalities—discover one another to be both far crazier and far more normal than any of them thought.

This “darkly funny and provocative” coming-of-age novel balances grief and hope in the voice of a witty teenage girl whose Canadian family is shattered by fundamentalist Christianity (O, The Oprah Magazine). From the author of Women Talking—now an Academy Award-winning film starring Claire Foy, Rooney Mara, Frances McDormand, and Jessie Buckley “Half of our family, the better–looking half, is missing,” Nomi Nickel tells us at the beginning of A Complicated Kindness. Left alone with her sad, peculiar father, her days are spent piecing together why her mother and sister have disappeared and contemplating her inevitable career at Happy Family Farms, a chicken slaughterhouse on the outskirts of East Village. Not the East Village in New York City where Nomi would prefer to live, but an oppressive town founded by Mennonites on the cold, flat plains of Manitoba, Canada. This darkly funny novel is the world according to the unforgettable Nomi, a bewildered and wry sixteen–year–old trapped in a town governed by fundamentalist religion and in the shattered remains of a family it destroyed. In Nomi''s droll, refreshing voice, we''re told the story of an eccentric, loving family that falls apart as each member lands on a collision course with the only community any of them have ever known. A work of fierce humor and tragedy by a writer who has taken the American market by storm, this searing, tender, comic testament to family love will break your heart.

"A major work by one of our most beloved and esteemed writers, the novel is based on real events that happened between 2005 and 2009 in a remote Mennonite community where more than 100 girls and women were drugged unconscious and raped in the night by what they were told were "ghosts" or "demons." Women Talking is an imagined response to these real events. It takes place over 48 hours, as eight women hide in a hayloft while the men are in a nearby town posting bail for the perpetrators. They have come together to debate, on behalf of all the women and children in the community, whether to stay or leave before the men return. Taking minutes is the one man invited by the women to witness the conversation--a former outcast whose own surprising story is revealed as the women talk. By turns poignant, furious, witty, acerbic, tender, devastating, and heartbreaking, the voices in this extraordinary novel are unforgettable."--

Die grosse kanadische Autorin Miriam Toews wuchs in einer mennonitischen Familie in Manitoba auf. In ihrem neuen Roman kehrt sie zu ihren Wurzeln zurück und vollbringt ein literarisches Wunder: Mit atemberaubender Eindringlichkeit erzählt sie die Geschichte einer jungen Frau, die lernt, was es heisst, sich selbst zu vergeben.

"A 16-year-old rebels against the conventions of her strict Mennonite community and tries to come to terms with the collapse of her family ..."--Publishers Weekly.

Een jonge Canadese reist met haar neefje en nichtje, een stel vroegwijze pubers wier moeder in een psychiatrisch ziekenhuis verblijft, door Noord-Amerika op zoek naar hun vader.

Découvrant à son retour de Paris que sa soeur doit de nouveau être hospitalisée en psychiatrie, une jeune femme part avec sa nièce, Thebes, douze ans, et son neveu, Logan, quinze ans, aux États-Unis à la recherche de leur père. Un voyage rempli d''incidents loufoques où les trois héros, aux caractères passablement déjantés, apprendront à cohabiter malgré leurs différences. [SDM].

1500 Einwohner hat Algren und genau so muss es auch bleiben. Ein Einwohner weniger und Algren wäre keine Stadt mehr, ein Einwohner mehr und es wäre womöglich nicht mehr die kleinste. Denn Premierminister John Baert wird am 1. Juli, dem kanadischen Nationalfeiertag, der kleinsten Stadt Kanadas einen Besuch abstatten, und Algrens Bürgermeister Hosea Funk ersehnt insgeheim nichts so sehr wie diesen Besuch - hat seine Mutter ihm doch auf dem Sterbebett anvertraut, John Baert sei sein Vater. Wie aber soll man die Einwohnerzahl halten, wenn die Geburt von Drillingen droht, Knute und ihre Tochter Summer Feelin in den Schoß der Familie zurückkehren, der lang verschollene Max plötzlich wiederauftaucht und Hoseas Sweetheart Lorna Garden beschließt, zu ihm nach Algren zu ziehen? Komisch und anrührend schildert Miriam Toews, wie Hosea sich mit allen Mitteln der steigenden Einwohnerzahl zu erwehren sucht (inklusive Verschiebung der Stadtgrenzen). Er rechnet, überschlägt, stellt neue Berechnungen an, und als dann der 95-jährige Leander Hamm schwer gezeichnet ins Krankenhaus eingeliefert wird, wird Hoseas Nächstenliebe auf eine harte Probe gestellt.

De burgemeester van het kleinste stadje in Canada houdt zich bezig met de problemen van zijn burgers.

Em ''Uma bondade complicada'', Nomi é uma menina de 16 anos, de uma comunidade menonita, que é abandonada pela irmã e pela mãe da noite para o dia. Quando sua vida na cidade se torna insuportável, é surpreendida pela partida do pai. Decidida a se libertar, ela descobre que a mãe foi vítima da chantagem de um professor. Uma leitura ao mesmo tempo comovente e engraçada sobre a busca de uma adolescente dos anos 70.