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Una storia luminosa in cui dolore e amore sono intrecciati a doppio filo, in cui a ogni pagina, dopo aver versato una lacrima, si scoprirà di poter ancora ridere di gusto per tutto quello che nella vita continua a risplendere. Elf è una pianista di successo, invitata a esibirsi nei teatri più prestigiosi; dalla vita ha avuto tutto: talento, fascino, un compagno che la ama. Ogni cosa le è sempre riuscita facile, t...

Da sua nonna Swiv impara milioni di cose indispensabili e del tutto inutili, essenziali e strampalate. Soprattutto impara a ridere sempre e non mollare mai. «Siamo tutte combattenti. Siamo una famiglia di combattenti»: sua nonna Elvira, incontenibile e meravigliosamente irriverente, sua mamma «Mooshie», lunatica e pericolosamente incinta, e lei, Swiv, un vulcano di parole e idee da brandire contro le avversità...

Between 2005 and 2009, in a remote religious Mennonite colony, over a hundred girls and women were knocked unconscious and raped, often repeatedly, by what many thought were ghosts or demons, as a punishment for their sins.

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Move over, Scout Finch! There's a new contender for feistiest girl in fiction, and her name is Swiv." -USA Today, "Best Books of the Year"Toews is a master of dialogue." -New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice"A revelation." -Richard Russo NPR Best Books of the Year * Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize * Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Finalist * Indie Next Pick * Amazon Editors' Pick * Apple Book of the MonthFrom the bestselling au...

She's known the very worst that life can throw at you - and has met it every time with a wild, unnamable spirit, fighting for joy and independence every step of the way. Grandma's health is failing, the baby is on the way, as a family of three extraordinary women prepare to face life's great changes together.

At home, classes include Poached Egg and How to Dig a Winter Grave, and her Grandma is a lively - if exasperating - teacher. Swiv isn't the only member of her family who has been fighting.

Move over, Scout Finch! There's a new contender for feistiest girl in fiction, and her name is Swiv." -USA TodayFrom the bestselling author of Women Talking and All My Puny Sorrows, a compassionate, darkly humorous, and deeply wise new novel about three generations of women.Indie Next PickAmazon Editors' PickApple Book of the MonthFinalist for the Atwood-Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction PrizeLonglisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize"You're a sma...

Mit 1500 Einwohnern trägt Algren einen Ehrentitel: kleinste Kleinstadt Kanadas. Ein Einwohner mehr, und es wäre nur noch irgendeine Kleinstadt, einer weniger und es wäre ein Dorf. Als der Premierminister ankündigt, dem Ort als kleinster Kleinstadt seines Landes persönlich die Ehre zu geben, beginnen für den stolzen Bürgermeister Hosea Funk Monate aberwitziger Rechnerei. Was soll er nur machen mit Victoria, die einen so dicken Bauch hat, dass s...

From the bestselling author of Women Talking, a "wrenchingly honest, darkly funny novel" (Entertainment Weekly).Elf and Yoli are sisters. While on the surface Elfrieda's life is enviable (she's a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, and happily married) and Yolandi's a mess (she's divorced and broke, with two teenagers growing up too quickly), they are fiercely close-raised in a Mennonite household and sharing the hardship of Elf's desi...

Wir sind Mennoniten. Meines Wissens ist das die peinlichste religiöse Untergruppierung von Menschen, zu der man als Teenager gehören kann." Die 16jährige Nomi hat es nicht leicht. Sie träumt davon, mit Lou Reed und Marianne Faithfull New York unsicher zu machen. Aber in East Village, einer mennonitischen Kleinstadt in den hügeligen Weiten Kanadas, ist nur dreierlei erlaubt: beten, arbeiten, sterben. Nomis berufliche Perspektive ist wie für ihr...

National BestsellerWinner of the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize for FictionShortlisted for the Governor General's Award for FictionShortlisted for the Reading Women Award "This amazing, sad, shocking, but touching novel, based on a real-life event, could be right out of The Handmaid's Tale." --Margaret Atwood, on Twitter"Scorching . . . Women Talking is a wry, freewheeling novel of ideas that touches on the nature of evil, questions of...

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Inspired by the scapegoating of beatings and rapes of Mennonite women on to 'punishing spirits' across the early 2000s, this novel imagines the Mennonite women gathering in secret to discuss how best to fight to defend themselves, isolated in a remote community in a country where they do not speak the language. From the author of the acclaimed "All My Puny Sorrows".

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Jorge said he wasn't coming back until I learned how to be a better wife . But before he drove off he gave me a new flashlight with triple C batteries and I'm grateful for it because this is a very dark, pitch-black part of the world .