{"product_id":"9780008803278","title":"A Truce That Is Not Peace","description":"Author: Miriam Toews\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780008803278\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: HarperCollins Publishers\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 04 Sep 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 192 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘The best memoir you will read all year’ NICK HORNBY\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A triumph – a meditation on writing, suicide, guilt and silence’ \u003cem\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Curious and idiosyncratic and enjoyable’ ZADIE SMITH\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A grief memoir in the vein of Joan Didion’s \u003cem\u003eBlue Nights\u003c\/em\u003e’ \u003cem\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Darkly moving and heart-wrenchingly funny’ \u003cem\u003eMARIE CLAIRE\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe internationally bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eWomen Talking\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAll My Puny Sorrows\u003c\/em\u003e, Miriam Toews, returns with a singular memoir celebrating disobedient memory, wit, writing and life. \u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Truce That Is Not Peace\u003c\/em\u003e 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\u003cp\u003e‘[Toews] does not shy away from her own vulnerability, and writes with both candour and humour’ \u003cem\u003eObserver\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Toews knows exactly how to extract hilarity from horrifying events’\u003cem\u003e The Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Nothing short of a masterpiece’ \u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘This is memoir perfection … I adored it’ Cariad Lloyd, author of \u003cem\u003eYou Are Not Alone\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Brilliant … it broke my heart in the best of ways’ Sharlene Teo, author of \u003cem\u003ePonti\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Tragi-comic, and incredibly moving … essential reading for turbulent times’ Laura van den Berg, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Third Hotel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Toews has done something very rare: shown us a true inner world’ Samuel Graydon, author of\u003cem\u003e Einstein in Time and Space\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘An affirmation of Life in all its richness and variety … remarkable’ Celia Paul, author of \u003cem\u003eSelf-Portrait\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘I would have read another thousand chapters’ Catherine Newman, author of \u003cem\u003eSandwich\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Piercing and distilled, a masterpiece in vulnerability and performance’ Hannah Pittard, author of \u003cem\u003eWe Are Too Many\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Truce That Is Not Peace \u003c\/em\u003ewas a #1 bestseller in Canada in w\/c 06\/09\/2025\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46542739046558,"sku":"HPC-9780008803278","price":28.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780008803278.jpg?v=1771567114","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780008803278","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}