{"product_id":"a-truce-that-is-not-peace","title":"A Truce That Is Not Peace","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'[Toews] does not shy away from her own vulnerability, and writes with both candour and humour’ Observer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Toews knows exactly how to extract hilarity from horrifying events' The Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Nothing short of a masterpiece’ San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘There are few writers who so fully inhabit the vulnerable space between violence and grace, criticism and compassion, as Toews does' AnOther Magazine\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Brilliant … it broke my heart in the best of ways’ Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Tragi-comic, and incredibly moving … essential reading for turbulent times’ Laura van den Berg, author of The Third Hotel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'An affirmation of Life in all its richness and variety … remarkable’ Celia Paul, author of Self-Portrait\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI would have read another thousand chapters’ Catherine Newman, author of Sandwich\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Piercing and distilled, a masterpiece in vulnerability and performance’ Hannah Pittard, author of We Are Too Many\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Truce That Is Not Peace was a #1 bestseller in Canada in w\/c 06\/09\/2025\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Miriam Toews","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46816655868073,"sku":"9780008803278","price":12.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/9780008803278.jpg?v=1771387463","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/a-truce-that-is-not-peace","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}