\"Why do I write? This is the question a literary festival asks Miriam Toews to answer. Time and again, she fails to formulate an answer, and with each new attempt, she uncovers new layers of grief, guilt, and emptiness connected to her sister's suicide. She realizes that it was her sister who once asked her to write and that it is with her that she has since been in constant correspondence.

With equal parts sorrow and humor, Miriam Toews portrays in A Ceasefire That Is Not Peace a writing that for decades has been met with the silence of death from her sister, but which keeps her family alive.



Miriam Toews was born in 1964 in Steinbach, Canada, and lives in Toronto. She debuted in 1996 and has been published in Swedish with Women Talking, All My Puny Sorrows, and A Complicated Kindness. Toews is today considered one of Canada's foremost authors with an incomparable ability to combine the comical with the tragic, an approach to life she also tries to answer in A Ceasefire That Is Not Peace.

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Media type: Book
Binding type: Hardcover
Author: Miriam Toews
Translator: Erik Andersson
Publisher: Rámus Förlag
Language: Swedish
Extent: 182 pages
Edition: 1
Dimensions (wxhxd): 134x198x18 mm
Weight: 316 grams
Illustrated: No

Barcode: 9789189105997
SKU: 719625