{"product_id":"a-truce-that-is-not-peace-paperback-by-miriam-toews","title":"A Truce That Is Not Peace Paperback by Miriam Toews","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                \n                    \n                        \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                        \u003cul\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eVintage Canada\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2026-10-20)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e192\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9781039056220\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e164.43\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e20.29 x 13.21 x 1.27\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                        \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                        \u003cbr\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Finalist for the 2025 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction • In this breathtaking memoir of stunning emotional force and electrifying honesty, one of Canada's most iconic writers tells her own story for the first time.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Why do you write?” the organizer of a literary event in Mexico City asks Miriam Toews. Each attempt at an answer from Toews—all unsatisfactory to the organizer—surfaces new layers of grief, guilt, and futility connected to her sister’s suicide more than fifteen years ago. She has been keeping up, she realizes, an internal correspondence with her beloved sibling, attempting to fill a silence she can barely comprehend. As Toews turns to face that silence, we come to see that the question “why I write” is as impossible to answer as deciding whether to live life as a comedy or a tragedy.\u003cbr\u003e   A masterwork of non-fiction, \u003ci\u003eA Truce That Is Not Peace\u003c\/i\u003e explores the uneasy pact every creative person makes with memory. Wildly original yet intimately, powerfully precise; momentous, hilarious, wrenching, and joyful—this is Miriam Toews at her dazzling best, remaking her personal world and inventing a brilliant literary form to hold it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003eMIRIAM TOEWS is the author of the internationally acclaimed and bestselling novels\u003ci\u003e Fight Night\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWomen Talking\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAll My Puny Sorrows\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIrma Voth\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Flying Troutmans\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Complicated Kindness\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e A Boy of Good Breeding\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSummer of My Amazing Luck\u003c\/i\u003e, and one prior work of non-fiction, \u003ci\u003eSwing Low: A Life\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the winner of numerous awards, including the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Libris Award for Fiction, the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and the Writers’ Trust Engel Findley Award. Several of her novels have been made into feature films, including\u003ci\u003e All My Puny Sorrows\u003c\/i\u003e and the Oscar-nominated \u003ci\u003eWomen Talking\u003c\/i\u003e. Miriam Toews lives in Toronto.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                    \n                \n            \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":48166552240289,"sku":"BBSNIJ9781039056220","price":23.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9781039056220.jpg?v=1792570246","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/a-truce-that-is-not-peace-paperback-by-miriam-toews","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}