{"product_id":"9780008722845","title":"A Truce That Is Not Peace by Miriam Toews","description":"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\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55897315934581,"sku":"9780008722845","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780008722845.jpg?v=1756997721","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780008722845","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}