Miriam Toews Pořadí knih

"A tribute to the power of both pain and love through three generations in an unusual family."--From English edition.

She's known the very worst that life can throw at you - and has met it every time with a wild, unnamable spirit, fighting for joy and independence every step of the way. Grandma's health is failing, the baby is on the way, as a family of three extraordinary women prepare to face life's great changes together.

Eine urkomische und bewegende Geschichte über Hattie, die nach dem Klinikaufenthalt ihrer Schwester mit ihren Neffen und ihrer Nichte einen Roadtrip quer durch die USA unternimmt. Auf der Suche nach dem Vater erleben sie skurrile Abenteuer, wachsen als Familie zusammen und lernen, was im Leben wirklich zählt.

When Stella Mosconi left the small mountain city of Nelson, B.C. straight out of high school, she hoped she had seen the last of Jack Ballard. A teenage fling between the two ended with a scary incident that left a fear that still lingers some twenty years later when Stella returns to her hometown. Now settled with her family and hitting her stride as a reporter for the local paper, Stella has been flying under Ballard’s radar. But once her cover is blown, the former pro mountain biker, an icon in Nelson, won’t give her any peace. Then on the morning after celebrating his fortieth birthday with a big party, Ballard is found dead, his body discovered beneath the lookout of a popular hiking trail. Stella doesn’t believe the former elite athlete would simply have stumbled over the edge. Too many circumstances surrounding the incident seem off-kilter. A teenager Stella once helped put into youth custody had shown up uninvited at Ballard’s party. The witness who found his body is building a shrine to him. And Ballard’s pregnant fiancée – hostile to Stella from the start – is going after her with a vengeance now that he’s gone. Once again, the intrepid reporter teams up with Sergeant Ben McKean to dig into the case while the pair try to skirt a mutual attraction. Grasping at leads, Ben isn’t even certain a crime has been committed. But Stella is ready to put everything on the line to unravel the enigma that was Jack Ballard.

A profound, unsettling novel from the award-winning author of All My Puny Sorrows, soon to be a major film starring Frances McDormand, Rooney Mara and Ben Whishaw.

A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews is a novel of fierce originality and brilliance from the celebrated Canadian novelist, author of The Flying Troutmans and All My Puny Sorrows.

Elfrieda, a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, happily married: she wants to die. Yolandi, divorced, broke, sleeping with the wrong men as she tries to find true love: she desperately wants to keep her older sister alive. But Elf's latest suicide attempt is a shock: she is three weeks away from the opening of her highly anticipated international tour. Can she be nursed back to "health" in time? Does it matter? As the situation becomes ever more complicated, Yoli faces the most terrifying decision of her life.

One morning Mel Toews put on his coat and hat and walked out of town, prepared to die. But it is also a funny, winsome evocation of country life: growing up on farm, courting a wife, becoming a teacher, and rearing a happy, strong family in the midst of private torment.

Sie wurden sofort Freundinnen: Lucy, die bedachte, die vorsichtige junge Mutter, und die quirlige Lish, die mit ihren vier Töchtern und ihrer guten Laune das ganze Wohnheim aufmischt. Doch Lish sehnt sich nach dem Vater ihrer Zwillinge, einem Straßenkünstler, dessen Namen sie nicht kennt und der nach einer Nacht mit ihr für immer verschwunden ist. Als Lucy und Lish entscheiden, die Kinder in einen Bus zu setzen und sich auf die Suche nach dem Feuerschlucker zu machen, ahnen sie noch nicht, dass dies der Sommer ihres Lebens wird ... Tieftraurig und sprudelnd vor Lebensfreude - Miriam Toews lebt von ihren wunderbaren Frauenfiguren.

The stifling, reclusive life of nineteen-year-old Irma Voth, recently married, and more recently deserted is turned on its head when a film crew moves in to make a movie about the strict religious community, in which she lives.