A Truce That Is Not Peace

''I would have read another thousand chapters'' CATHERINE NEWMAN ''Tragi-comic, and incredibly moving ... essential reading for turbulent times'' LAURA VAN DEN BERG '' A Truce That Is Not Peace is a stunner'' HANNAH PITTARD 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.

Product details

• Authors: Miriam Toews, Toews Miriam
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.08.2025
• EAN: 9780008722845
• ISBN: 978-0-00-872284-5
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 222 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; NON-CLASSIFIABLE, North America, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement, Coping with death & bereavement, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, True stories: general, North America (USA and Canada), Autobiography: writers, North America (USA & Canada), Stationery and miscellaneous items, Miscellaneous items, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / Authorship, Coping with / advice about death and bereavement, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, Relating to siblings