A complicated kindness a novel
| Main Author: | Toews, Miriam, 1964- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Counterpoint,
c2004.
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| Physical Description: |
246 p. ; 22 cm. |
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| ISBN: |
1582433216 |
| Author Notes: |
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. (Bowker Author Biography) |