{"product_id":"9780008722845","title":"A Truce That Is Not Peace","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Miriam Toews\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eNorth America\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 28 August 2025 by HarperCollins Publishers (Fourth Estate Ltd) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003eHardback | 192 pages\u003cbr\u003e224 x 145 x 21mm | 308g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2025\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’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e GUARDIAN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘Curious and idiosyncratic and enjoyable’ ZADIE SMITH\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘Darkly moving and heart-wrenchingly funny’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e MARIE CLAIRE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  A book of the year in the Guardian, New Statesman and Irish Times.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  The 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\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 A 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\u003cp\u003e ‘A grief memoir in the vein of Joan Didion’s Blue Nights’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘[Toews] does not shy away from her own vulnerability, and writes with both candour and humour’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eObserver\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘Toews knows exactly how to extract hilarity from horrifying events’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘Nothing short of a masterpiece’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘This is memoir perfection … I adored it’ Cariad Lloyd, author of You Are Not Alone\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘Brilliant … it broke my heart in the best of ways’ Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘Tragi-comic, and incredibly moving … essential reading for turbulent times’ Laura van den Berg, author of The Third Hotel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘Toews has done something very rare: shown us a true inner world’ Samuel Graydon, author of Einstein in Time and Space\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘An affirmation of Life in all its richness and variety … remarkable’ Celia Paul, author of Self-Portrait\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘I would have read another thousand chapters’ Catherine Newman, author of Sandwich\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘Piercing and distilled, a masterpiece in vulnerability and performance’ Hannah Pittard, author of We Are Too Many\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A 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":64837509579101,"sku":"9780008722845","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1074\/9358\/9341\/files\/9780008722845.jpg?v=1780052199","url":"https:\/\/adventureintobooks.co.uk\/products\/9780008722845","provider":"Adventure Into Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}