A Truce That Is Not Peace

THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'The best memoir you will read all year' NICK HORNBY 'A triumph - a meditation on writing, suicide, guilt and silence'GUARDIAN 'Curious and idiosyncratic and enjoyable'ZADIE SMITH 'A grief memoir in the vein of Joan Didion's Blue Nights'NEW YORK TIMES 'Darkly moving and heart-wrenchingly funny'MARIE CLAIRE A book of the year in the Guardian, New Statesman and Irish Times. 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...

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THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'The best memoir you will read all year' NICK HORNBY 'A triumph - a meditation on writing, suicide, guilt and silence'GUARDIAN 'Curious and idiosyncratic and enjoyable'ZADIE SMITH 'A grief memoir in the vein of Joan Didion's Blue Nights'NEW YORK TIMES 'Darkly moving and heart-wrenchingly funny'MARIE CLAIRE A book of the year in the Guardian, New Statesman and Irish Times. 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. '[Toews] does not shy away from her own vulnerability, and writes with both candour and humour'Observer 'Toews knows exactly how to extract hilarity from horrifying events' The Times 'Nothing short of a masterpiece'San Francisco Chronicle 'This is memoir perfection ... I adored it' Cariad Lloyd, author of You Are Not Alone 'Brilliant ... it broke my heart in the best of ways' Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti 'Tragi-comic, and incredibly moving ... essential reading for turbulent times'Laura van den Berg, author of The Third Hotel 'Toews has done something very rare: shown us a true inner world' Samuel Graydon, author of Einstein in Time and Space 'An affirmation of Life in all its richness and variety ... remarkable' Celia Paul, author of Self-Portrait 'I would have read another thousand chapters' Catherine Newman, author of Sandwich 'Piercing and distilled, a masterpiece in vulnerability and performance' Hannah Pittard, author of We Are Too Many A Truce That Is Not Peacewas a #1 bestseller in Canada in w/c 06/09/2025

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