Новинки Мириам Тэйвз

Сестры Эльфрида и Йоланди с детства были очень близки, но всегда были очень разными. Йоланди живет вполне обычную жизнь: муж, развод, муж, двое детей, ничего необычного, а Эльфрида стала выдающейся пианисткой, вышла замуж за хорошего мужчину, но примерно всю свою сознательную жизнь она страдает от тяжелой депрессии. И вот однажды она просит сестру отвезти ее в Швейцарию, чтобы там ей сделали эвтаназию, потому что она больше не может и не хочет жить. Тогда перед младшей сестрой встаёт сложный вопрос. Что лучше: насильно удерживать любимого человека среди живых или своими руками помочь ему уйти. Но как вообще можно сделать такой выбор?

Основанная на реальных событиях история скандала в религиозной общине Боливии, ставшая основой голливудского фильма.
Однажды вечером восемь меннонитских женщин собираются в сарае на секретную встречу.
На протяжении двух лет к ним и еще сотне других девушек в их колонии по ночам являлись демоны, чтобы наказать за грехи. Но когда выясняется, что синяки, ссадины и следы насилия – дело рук не сатанинских сил, а живых мужчин из их же общины, женщины оказываются перед выбором: остаться жить в мире, за пределами которого им ничего не знакомо, или сбежать, чтобы спасти себя и своих дочерей?
«Это совершенно новая проза, не похожая на романы, привычные читателю, не похожая на романы о насилии и не похожая на известные нам романы о насилии над женщинами.
В основе сюжета лежат реальные события: массовые изнасилования, которым подвергались женщины меннонитской колонии Манитоба в Боливии с 2004 по 2009 год. Но чтобы рассказать о них, Тейвз прибегает к совершенно неожиданным приемам. Повествование ведет не женщина, а мужчина; повествование ведет мужчина, не принимавший участие в нападениях; повествование ведет мужчина, которого попросили об этом сами жертвы насилия.

Бабушка Эльвира провела в борьбе всю жизнь. Сначала она упорно отстаивала своё право на счастье и независимость, но даже теперь, несмотря на почтенный возраст и хрупкое здоровье, её борьба ещё не окончена, ведь её беременная дочь и маленькая внучка так в ней нуждаются. Когда девятилетнюю Суив отстраняют от школьных занятий, неподражаемая Эльвира с готовностью берётся за обучение внучки. Она научит Суив считать, писать письма, читать рецепты лекарств, рыть могилы и разруливать конфликты с охранниками, но главное, она научит внучку самому сложному – как не проиграть в ежедневной изнурительной борьбе за себя и своих любимых, и как при этом…

Основанная на реальных событиях история скандала в религиозной общине Боливии, ставшая основой голливудского фильма.

Однажды вечером восемь меннонитских женщин собираются в сарае на секретную встречу.

На протяжении двух лет к ним и еще сотне других девушек в их колонии по ночам являлись демоны, чтобы наказать за грехи. Но когда выясняется, что синяки, ссадины и следы насилия — дело рук не сатанинских сил, а живых мужчин из их же общины, женщины оказываются перед выбором: остаться жить в мире, за пределами которого им ничего не знакомо, или сбежать, чтобы спасти себя и своих дочерей?

The beloved author of bestsellers Women Talking, A Complicated Kindness, and All My Puny Sorrows returns with a funny, smart, headlong rush of a novel full of wit, flawless writing, and a tribute to perseverance and love in an unusual family.

Fight Night is told in the unforgettable voice of Swiv, a nine-year-old living in Toronto with her pregnant mother, who is raising Swiv while caring for her own elderly, frail, yet extraordinarily lively mother. When Swiv is expelled from school, Grandma takes on the role of teacher and gives her the task of writing to Swiv's absent father about life in the household during the last trimester of the pregnancy. In turn, Swiv gives Grandma an assignment: to write a letter to "Gord," her unborn grandchild (and Swiv's soon-to-be brother or sister). "You’re a small thing," Grandma writes to Gord, "and you must learn to fight."

As Swiv records her thoughts and observations, Fight Night unspools the pain, love, laughter, and above all, will to live a good life across three generations of women in a close-knit family. But it is Swiv’s exasperating, wise and irrepressible Grandma who is at the heart of this novel: someone who knows intimately what it costs to survive in this world, yet has found a way—painfully, joyously, ferociously—to love and fight to the end, on her own terms.

Lucy and her eight-month-old son live in a Winnipeg housing project filled with single mothers on the dole. Still dealing with her own mothers sudden death, and new to the ever-multiplying complications of life on welfare, Lucy strikes up a friendship with her neighbour, Lish. On the whole, theyre pretty happy... But Lucy wants to make sure they stay happy. And she has a plan. Told with Toewss signature scalding wit and deep compassion, Summer of my Amazing Luck is a brilliantly funny book about the intricacies of friendship, grief, and poverty. 0

The closeted life of nineteen-year-old Irma Voth, recently married and more recently deserted, is turned on its head when a film crew arrives. They have come to make a movie about the strict Mennonite community in which she and her family live. Against her family's wishes, Irma takes a job on set and glimpses the wider world and a path towards something that feels like freedom.

One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past two years, each of these women, and more than a hundred other girls in their colony, has been repeatedly violated in the night by demons coming to punish them for their sins. Now that the women have learned they were in fact drugged and attacked by a group of men from their own community, they are determined to protect themselves and their daughters from future harm. While the men of the colony are off in the city, attempting to raise enough money to bail out the rapists and bring them home, these women-all illiterate, without any knowledge…

Knute is a twenty-four-year-old single mother who returns home to Algren with her daughter to look after her father Tom, who has suffered a heart attack. Meanwhile, Hosea Funk, a friend of Tom's and the mayor of Algren has a lot on his mind. The prime minister has promised to pay a visit to whichever town in Canada has the smallest population. Algren has held this position for some time but recent baby booms and returning families, like Knute, threaten to tip Algren over the magic 1500 

We're Mennonites. As far as I know, we are the most embarrassing sub-sect of people to belong to if you're a teenager.
Sixteen-year-old Nomi Nickel longs to hang out with Lou Reed and Marianne Faithfull in New York City's East Village. Instead she's trapped in East Village, Manitoba: a town with no train station, no bar, and where job prospects consist of slaughtering chickens at the Happy Family Farms abattoir.

Elf and Yoli are sisters. While on the surface Elfrieda's life is enviable (she's a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, and happily married) and Yolandi's a mess (she's divorced and broke, with two teenagers growing up too quickly), they are fiercely close — raised in a Mennonite household and sharing the hardship of Elf's desire to end her life. After Elf's latest attempt, Yoli must quickly determine how to keep her family from falling apart, how to

Elf and Yoli are sisters. While on the surface Elfrieda's is an enviable life (she's a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, and happily married) and Yolandi's a mess (she's divorced and broke, with two teenagers growing up too quickly), they are fiercely close—raised in a Mennonite household and sharing the hardship of Elf's desire to end her own life. After Elf's latest attempt, Yoli must quickly determine how to keep her family from falling apart, how to keep her own heart from breaking, and what it means to love someone who wants to die.

All My Puny Sorrows is the latest novel from Miriam Toews, one of Canada's most beloved authors not only because her work is rich with deep human feeling and compassion, but because her observations are knife-sharp and her books wickedly funny. And this is Toews at her finest: a story that is as much comedy as it is tragedy, a goodbye grin from the friend who taught you how to live.

Shortlisted for the Folio Prize 2015 Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2015 Sunday Times Top Choice Summer Read Elf and Yoli are two smart, loving sisters. Elf is a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, happily married: she wants to die. Yoli is divorced, broke, sleeping with the wrong men: she desperately wants to keep her older sister alive. When Elf's latest suicide attempt leaves her hospitalised weeks before her highly anticipated world tour, Yoli is forced to confront the impossible question of whether it is better to let a loved one go. 'The novel she has written - so exquisitely that you'll want to savour every word…

Elf and Yoli are two smart, loving sisters.
Elf is a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, happily married: she wants to die.
Yoli is divorced, broke, sleeping with the wrong men: she desperately wants to keep her older sister alive.
When Elf's latest suicide attempt leaves her hospitalised weeks before her highly anticipated world tour, Yoli is forced to confront the impossible question of whether it is better to let a loved one go.

Lucy Von Alstyne sends fictitious letters to her friend Alicia, pretending to be the father of Alicia's twins, and the two welfare mothers and their five children set off on a journey to find him, facing along the way the complications of living in poverty and raising fatherless children.

"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.

Hattie, living in Paris, has just been dumped by her boyfriend when she receives a phone call from her eleven-year-old niece, Thebes. Hatties sister Min is having a particularly dark episode and Thebes asks Hattie to come and look after her and her brother Logan. When Hattie arrives back in Canada, and realises that she is out of her depth, she hatches a plan to find the childrens long-lost father. With only the most tenuous lead, she piles Logan and Thebes into the family van and heads south. Hilarious and heart-rending, The Flying Troutmans tells the story of a fractured family on the verge of spinning off its axles and a road trip that might just keep them together.
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L'Elf i la Yoli s?n dues germanes intel·ligents i ben avingudes. L'Elfrieda ?s una pianista de renom mundial, encantadora, rica i feli?ment casada: vol morir. La Yolandi est? divorciada, li costa arribar a fi de mes amb el sou que guanya i se'n va al llit amb els homes equivocats mentre mira de trobar el veritable amor: vol desesperadament mantenir la seva germana gran amb vida.Per? l'?ltim intent de su?cidi de l'Elf ?s un xoc: ?s a tres setmanes de l'inici de la seva esperada gira internacional. Podr? recuperar la salut a temps? A mesura que la situaci? es torna cada vegada m?s complicada, la Yoli s'enfronta a la decisi? m?s esfere?dora de la seva vida."La novel·la que ha escrit —tan exquisidament que en voldreu assaborir cada paraula—, ?s com si se l'hagu?s arrencada del cor." Sunday Times

Una nit, vuit dones mennonites de diferents edats es troben en un paller per dur a terme una reuni? secreta. Durant els darrers dos anys, aquestes dones, i m?s d'un centenar d'altres noies de la seva col?nia, han estat violades repetidament de nit per dimonis que venen a castigar els seus pecats.Ara que les dones han descobert que havien estat drogades i atacades per un grup d'homes de la seva pr?pia comunitat, estan decidides a protegir-se a si mateixes i a salvaguardar les seves filles de possibles mals futurs.Mentre els homes de la col?nia van a la ciutat per pagar la fian?a i alliberar els violadors, aquestes dones, totes analfabetes, sense cap coneixement del m?n fora de la seva comunitat, tindran molt poc temps per prendre una decisi?: haurien de quedar-se a la comunitat, l'?nic m?n que han conegut, o haurien d'atrevir-se a marxar-ne?