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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 'A grief memoir in the vein of Joan Didion's Blue Nights' NEW YORK TIMES 'Darkly moving and heart-wrenchingly funny' MARIE CLAIRE 'This is memoir perfection . I adored it' CARIAD LLOYD 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 `There are few writers who so fully inhabit the vulnerable space between violence and grace, criticism and compassion, as Toews does' AnOther Magazine '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 Peace was a #1 bestseller in Canada in w/c 06/09/2025
Binding: Hardback
Binding: Hardback