All My Puny Sorrows - Miriam Toews
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Shortlisted for the Folio Prize 2015 Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2015 Sunday Times Top Choice Summer Read 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 impossible question of whether it is better to let a loved one go. Miriam Toews's All My Puny Sorrows, at once tender and unquiet, offers a profound reflection on the limits of love, and the sometimes unimaginable challenges we experience when childhood becomes a new country of adult commitments and responsibilities. 'The novel she has written - so exquisitely that you'll want to savour every word - reads as if it has been wrenched from her heart.' Christina Patterson, Sunday Times '[Miriam Toews] has produced a masterly bo...
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Staat: Goed. Paperback. Titel: All My Puny Sorrows. Jaar van uitgave: 2015. Taal: Engels. Lichte gebruik-/opslagsporen. (Lees)vouw(en) rug. Naam schutblad [Auteur: Miriam Toews] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Faber & Faber] [Jaar: 2015] [Titel: All My Puny Sorrows]
