A Complicated Kindness

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Author:

Toews, Miriam

ISBN:

978-1-58243-321-9

Publication Date:

Sep 2004

Publisher:

Counterpoint Press

Imprint:

Counterpoint

Book Format:

Hardback

List Price:

USD $23.00USD $23.00

Book Description:

A landmark literary novel, balancing unbearable sadness and beauty in the voice of a witty, beleaguered teen-ager whose family is destroyed by fundamentalist Christianity

Book Details

Pages:	256
Detailed Subjects:	Fiction / Family Life / General Fiction / Amish & Mennonite Fiction / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):	5.75 x 8.5 x 1 Inches
Book Weight:	0.906 Pounds

Author Biography

Toews, Miriam (Author)

Miriam Toews was born in 1964 in Canada. She is best known for her novels A Complicated Kindness and All My Puny Sorrows. She has won a number of literary prizes including the Governor General's Award for Fiction and the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award for body of work. She is also a two-time finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and a two-time winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Toews had a leading role in the feature film Silent Light, written and directed by Mexican filmmaker, Carlos Reygadas and winner of the 2007 Cannes Jury Prize, an experience that influenced her fifth novel, Irma Voth.

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