{"product_id":"9780008722845","title":"A Truce That Is Not Peace","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Toews, Miriam \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 28\/08\/2025,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 192 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780008722845,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The best memoir you will read all year' NICK HORNBY\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'This is memoir perfection … I adored it' CARIAD LLOYD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'An affirmation of Life in all its richness and variety … remarkable’ CELIA PAUL\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'Brilliant … it broke my heart in the best of ways’ SHARLENE TEO\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘I would have read another thousand chapters’ CATHERINE NEWMAN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e '[Toews] does not shy away from her own vulnerability, and writes with both candour and humour’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOBSERVER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘Tragi-comic, and incredibly moving … essential reading for turbulent times’ LAURA VAN DEN BERG\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘A Truce That Is Not Peace is a stunner’ HANNAH PITTARD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘A brilliant, absorbing, bittersweet memoir – I devoured it in one sitting' SHARLENE TEO\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55559333871989,"sku":"9780008722845","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780008722845_740b5e28-d2ba-4d6e-92f4-4c75cb7a0b65.jpg?v=1759660485","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780008722845","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}