Лучшие книги Мириам Тэйвз

Основанная на реальных событиях история скандала в религиозной общине Боливии, ставшая основой голливудского фильма. Однажды вечером восемь меннонитских женщин собираются в сарае на секретную встречу. На протяжении двух лет к ним и еще сотне других девушек в их колонии по ночам являлись демоны, чтобы наказать за грехи. Но когда выясняется, что синяки, ссадины…

Бабушка Эльвира провела в борьбе всю жизнь. Сначала она упорно отстаивала своё право на счастье и независимость, но даже теперь, несмотря на почтенный возраст и хрупкое здоровье, её борьба ещё не окончена, ведь её беременная дочь и маленькая внучка так в ней нуждаются. Когда девятилетнюю Суив отстраняют от школьных занятий, неподражаемая Эльвира с готовностью…

Сестры Эльфрида и Йоланди с детства были очень близки, но всегда были очень разными. Йоланди живет вполне обычную жизнь: муж, развод, муж, двое детей, ничего необычного, а Эльфрида стала выдающейся пианисткой, вышла замуж за хорошего мужчину, но примерно всю свою сознательную жизнь она страдает от тяжелой депрессии. И вот однажды она просит сестру отвезти ее в…

"Half of our family, the better-looking half, is missing," Nomi Nickel tells us at the beginning of A Complicated Kindness. Left alone with her sad, peculiar father, her days are spent piecing together why her mother and sister have disappeared and contemplating her inevitable career at Happy Family Farms, a chicken slaughterhouse on the outskirts of East Village. Not the East Village in New York City where Nomi would prefer to live, but an oppressive town founded by Mennonites on the cold, flat plains of Manitoba, Canada.

This darkly funny novel is the world according to the unforgettable Nomi, a bewildered and wry sixteen-year-old trapped in a town governed by fundamentalist religion and in the shattered remains of a family it destroyed. In Nomi's droll, refreshing voice, we're told the story of an eccentric, loving family that falls apart as each member lands on a collision course with the only community any of them have ever known. A work of fierce humor and tragedy by a writer who has taken the American market by storm, this searing, tender, comic testament to family love will break your heart.

The closeted life of nineteen-year-old Irma Voth, recently married and more recently deserted, is turned on its head when a film crew arrives. They have come 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 towards something that feels like freedom.

Lucy and her eight-month-old son live in a Winnipeg housing project filled with single mothers on the dole. Still dealing with her own mothers sudden death, and new to the ever-multiplying complications of life on welfare, Lucy strikes up a friendship with her neighbour, Lish. On the whole, theyre pretty happy... But Lucy wants to make sure they stay happy. And she has a plan.
Told with Toewss signature scalding wit and deep compassion, Summer of my Amazing Luck is a brilliantly funny book about the intricacies of friendship, grief, and poverty.
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Knute is a twenty-four-year-old single mother who returns home to Algren with her daughter to look after her father Tom, who has suffered a heart attack. Meanwhile, 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 

Lucy Von Alstyne sends fictitious letters to her friend Alicia, pretending to be the father of Alicia's twins, and the two welfare mothers and their five children set off on a journey to find him, facing along the way the complications of living in poverty and raising fatherless children.

L'Elf i la Yoli s?n dues germanes intel·ligents i ben avingudes. L'Elfrieda ?s una pianista de renom mundial, encantadora, rica i feli?ment casada: vol morir. La Yolandi est? divorciada, li costa arribar a fi de mes amb el sou que guanya i se'n va al llit amb els homes equivocats mentre mira de trobar el veritable amor: vol desesperadament mantenir la seva germana gran amb vida.Per? l'?ltim intent de su?cidi de l'Elf ?s un xoc: ?s a tres setmanes de l'inici de la seva esperada gira internacional. Podr? recuperar la salut a temps? A mesura que la situaci? es torna cada vegada m?s complicada, la Yoli s'enfronta a la decisi? m?s esfere?dora de la seva vida."La novel·la que ha escrit —tan exquisidament que en voldreu assaborir cada paraula—, ?s com si se l'hagu?s arrencada del cor." Sunday Times