{"product_id":"a-truce-that-is-not-peace","title":"A Truce That Is Not Peace","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe internationally bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eWomen Talking\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAll My Puny Sorrows\u003c\/em\u003e, Miriam Toews, returns with a singular memoir celebrating disobedient memory, wit, writing and life. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWildly 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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Miriam Toews","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56309531115907,"sku":"9780008722883","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/9781529077780_55.jpg?v=1784649685","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.live\/products\/a-truce-that-is-not-peace","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}