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All My Puny Sorrows - Miriam Toews
All My Puny Sorrows
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Elf and Yoli are two smart, loving sisters.Elf is a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, happily married: she wants to die.Yoli is divorced, broke, sleeping with the wrong men: she desperately wants to keep her older sister alive.When Elf's latest suicide attempt leaves her hospitalised... show more
Elf and Yoli are two smart, loving sisters.Elf is a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, happily married: she wants to die.Yoli is divorced, broke, sleeping with the wrong men: she desperately wants to keep her older sister alive.When Elf's latest suicide attempt leaves her hospitalised weeks before her highly anticipated world tour, Yoli is forced to confront the i
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Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780571305285 (0571305288)
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Pages no: 321
Edition language: English
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Reflections
Reflections rated it
5.0 Poignantly beautiful story of two sisters
I always fall hard for the novels Miriam Toews writes and the characters she creates. A best selling author in Canada, most of her books involve individualistically inclined or exiled Mennonites balancing their traditional upbringing with the modern world in distinctive stories of personal struggle ...
so many books, so little time
so many books, so little time rated it
5.0 All My Puny Sorrows
I've spent the last week wondering if this book really was as good as I thought it was. Can a book about suicidality and the co-existence of great pain and great gifts in one person also be healing in some way? Can moments of great humor in the storytelling escape being in some way manipulative and ...
What I Happen to Be Reading At the Moment
What I Happen to Be Reading At the Moment rated it
4.0 All My Puny Sorrows
The first part of the novel was very strong, exploring how and why the two sisters might have grown apart and how they interact now that one specifically has wishes to end her life. The ending kind of blew it for me, but otherwise the characterizations were magnificent and the good writing did a goo...
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