Irma Voth
Miriam Toews
Apr 2016 · Recorded Books · Narrated by Erin Moon
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"Toews is an artist of escape; she always finds a way for her characters, trapped by circumstance, to liberate themselves."—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker
Jorge said he wasn't coming back until I learned how to be a better wife …
The life of nineteen-year-old Irma Voth, recently married and more recently deserted, is turned on its head when a film crew arrives to make a movie about the strict Mennonite community in which she and her family live. Against her family's wishes, Irma takes a job on set and glimpses the wider world and a path toward something that feels like freedom.
"Toews is an artist of escape; she always finds a way for her characters, trapped by circumstance, to liberate themselves."—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker
Jorge said he wasn't coming back until I learned how to be a better wife …
The life of nineteen-year-old Irma Voth, recently married a...
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Miriam Toews was born in 1964 in Canada. She is best known for her novels A Complicated Kindness and All My Puny Sorrows. She has won a number of literary prizes including the Governor General's Award for Fiction and the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award for body of work. She is also a two-time finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and a two-time winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Toews had a leading role in the feature film Silent Light, written and directed by Mexican filmmaker, Carlos Reygadas and winner of the 2007 Cannes Jury Prize, an experience that influenced her fifth novel, Irma Voth.
Miriam Toews was born in 1964 in Canada. She is best known for her novels A Complicated Kindness and All My Puny Sorrows. She has won a number of literary prizes including the Governor General's Award for Fiction and the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award for body of work. She is also a two-time ...
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