5/9/2023 0 Comments Women Talking by Miriam Toews![]() Women Talking opens with a note from the author in which she describes her novel as both "a reaction through fiction" to true-life events and "an act of female imagination." The true-life events Toews refers to took place in the Manitoba Colony, a remote Mennonite community in Bolivia. ![]() ![]() In 2022, the novel was adapted into a film of the same name, written and directed by Sarah Polley and starring Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, and Frances McDormand. The novel was a finalist for the Governor General's Award and the Trillium Book Award, and was longlisted for International Dublin Literary Award. They have only 48 hours before the colony men, who are away to post bail for the rapists, return. Toews' novel centers on the secret meetings of eight Mennonite women who, on behalf of the other women in the colony, must decide how to react to these traumatic events. These nighttime attacks were denied or dismissed by colony elders until finally it was revealed that a group of men from the colony were spraying an animal anaesthetic into their victims' houses to render them unconscious. Toews describes her novel as "an imagined response to real events," the gas-facilitated rapes took place on the Manitoba Colony, a remote and isolated Mennonite community in Bolivia: Between 20, over a hundred girls and women in the colony woke up to discover that they had been raped in their sleep. Women Talking (2018) is the seventh novel by Canadian writer Miriam Toews. ![]()
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