Miriam Toews Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

"A tribute to the power of both pain and love through three generations in an unusual family."--From English edition.

'Sets standards for grandmotherly swearing and outspokenness I can never hope to match. Go Grandma Elvira!' Margaret Atwood

Eine urkomische und bewegende Geschichte über Hattie, die nach dem Klinikaufenthalt ihrer Schwester mit ihren Neffen und ihrer Nichte einen Roadtrip quer durch die USA unternimmt. Auf der Suche nach dem Vater erleben sie skurrile Abenteuer, wachsen als Familie zusammen und lernen, was im Leben wirklich zählt.

A profound, unsettling novel from the award-winning author of All My Puny Sorrows, soon to be a major film starring Frances McDormand, Rooney Mara and Ben Whishaw.

Elfrieda, a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, happily married: she wants to die. Yolandi, divorced, broke, sleeping with the wrong men as she tries to find true love: she desperately wants to keep her older sister alive. But Elf's latest suicide attempt is a shock: she is three weeks away from the opening of her highly anticipated international tour. Can she be nursed back to "health" in time? Does it matter? As the situation becomes ever more complicated, Yoli faces the most terrifying decision of her life.

One morning Mel Toews put on his coat and hat and walked out of town, prepared to die. But it is also a funny, winsome evocation of country life: growing up on farm, courting a wife, becoming a teacher, and rearing a happy, strong family in the midst of private torment.

The stifling, reclusive life of nineteen-year-old Irma Voth, recently married, and more recently deserted is turned on its head when a film crew moves in to make a movie about the strict religious community, in which she lives.

Na cestě za poznáním sebe sama. Veselá a zároveň srdcervoucí kniha vypráví příběh rozbité rodiny Troutmanů z kanadské Manitoby. Psychicky narušená Mína prožívá obzvláště temné období a míří do psychiatrické léčebny. Její patnáctiletý syn Logan a jedenáctiletá dcera Tereza už nevědí, jak dál, tak Tereza na pokraji zoufalství zavolá tetě Hattie, Mínině sestře, které se právě v Paříži bortí její partnerský vztah. Troutmanovi, taková normálně dysfunkční rodinka z Kanady. Hattie bez váhání sedne na letadlo, aby se o málomluvného Logana a mnohomluvnou Terezu postarala, velmi rychle si však uvědomí, že něco takového může být nad její síly. Proto vymyslí divoký plán – najít dlouho ztraceného otce obou dětí.

Meet the Troutmans. Hattie is living in Paris, city of romance, but has just been dumped by her boyfriend. Min, her sister back in Canada, is going through a particularly dark period. And Min’s two kids, Logan and Thebes, are not talking and talking way too much, respectively. When Hattie receives a phone call from eleven-year-old Thebes, begging her to return to Canada, she arrives home to find Min on her way to a psychiatric ward, and becomes responsible for her niece and nephew. Realising that she is way out of her league, Hattie hatches a plan to find the kids’ long-lost father. With only the most tenuous lead to go on, she piles Logan and Thebes into the family van, and they head south . . .

Knute is a twenty-four-year old single mother who returns home to Algren with her daughter, Summer Feelin' to look after her father Tom, who has suffered a heart attack. Hosea Funk, a friend of Tom's and the mayor of Algren has a lot on his mind. The prime minister has promised to pay a visit to whichever town in Canada has the smallest population. Algren has held this position for some time but recent baby booms and returning families, like Knute, threaten to tip Algren over the magic 1500. As Knute is reunited with Max, SF's father and Hosea finds himself compromised by his own additions to the population count, we find ourselves drawn into the warm, intimate heart of this funny, feel-good novel.

Finalist for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour Now available from Vintage Canada, a hilarious first novel about life’s ups and downs from the author of the bestselling A Complicated Kindness. Lucy and Lish are two single moms who live in Winnipeg’s Have-a-Life housing project – also known as Half-a-Life – where the nosy neighbours won’t mind their own business, kids’ wagons and cheap strollers are the only way to get to the grocery store and the summer rain is endless. Lucy’s not quite sure who the father of her son is, but Lish still pines for the father of her twins, a fire-eating busker who came through town a few years back. So when Lish decides they should head to Colorado to find him, they borrow a van held together with coat-hangers and electrical tape, load it up with clothes, toys, food and kids, and hit the road. Lucy’s not sure they’ll ever find the fire-eater, but there’s no way she can know that this will be the summer of her amazing luck.

Nomi Nickel ha sedici anni e vive a East Village, un paese sprofondato nelle praterie canadesi, imbevuto di una luce fredda e depressiva e di un silenzio che conduce a «morire asfissiati di infelicità inespressa». Un silenzio violato solo dai Tir che di notte rombano verso lontani macelli, evocando inesorabili l’unica attività produttiva del posto – «il massacro dei polli». Come se non bastasse, il paese di Nomi è popolato da una austera comunità religiosa mennonita – ai suoi occhi «la sottosetta più sfigata del mondo» –, che ha scelto di isolarsi dal resto dell’umanità trasformando la vita in un «facsimile della morte». Naturalmente per preservarsi dal Male. E proprio questo ordine ossessivo e claustrofobico, a cui anche i Nickel soggiacciono, sarà all’origine di una catastrofe familiare che lascerà Nomi attonita e straziata. Rimasta sola con il padre, devoto e schivo, nella casa dove i mobili scompaiono via via come le persone, Nomi affronterà la legge feroce dell’ortodossia col suo sguardo anarchico e amorale, attraverso vicende che ci narra con contagiosa vis comica, iniettando nel racconto un’energia immaginosa e sensuale che non abbandona il lettore neppure per un istante – e fa di lui il suo più irriducibile alleato.