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A Complicated Kindness
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Sixteen-year-old Nomi Nickel longs to hang out with Lou Reed and Marianne Faithfull in New York City's East Village. Instead she's trapped in East Village, Manitoba, a small town whose population is Mennonite: "the most embarrassing sub-sect of people to belong to if you're a teenager". East Village is a town with no train and no bar whose job prospects consist of slaughtering chickens at the Happy Family Farms abattoir or churning butter for tourists at the pioneer village. Ministered with an iron fist by Nomi's uncle Hans, aka The Mouth of Darkness, East Village is a town that's tall on rules and short on fun: no dancing, drinking, rock 'n' roll, recreational sex, swimming, make-up, jewellery, playing pool, going to cities, or staying up past nine o'clock.
As the novel begins, Nomi struggles to cope with the back-to-back departures three years earlier of Tash, her beautiful and mouthy sister, and Trudie, her warm and spirited mother. She lives with her father, Ray, a sweet yet hapless schoolteacher whose love is unconditional but whose parenting skills amount to benign neglect. Father and daughter deal with their losses in very different ways. Ray, a committed elder of the church, seeks to create an artificial sense of order by reorganizing the city dump late at night. Nomi, on the other hand, favours chaos as she tries to blunt her pain through "drugs and imagination." Together they live in a limbo of unanswered questions.
Nomi's first-person narrative shifts effortlessly between the present and the past. Within the present, Nomi goes through the motions of finishing high school while flagrantly rebelling against Mennonite tradition. She hangs out on Suicide Hill, hooks up with a boy named Travis, goes on the Pill, wanders around town, skips class, and cranks Led Zeppelin. But the past is never far from her mind as she remembers happy times with her mother and sister - as well as the painful events that led them to flee town. Throughout, in a voice both defiant and vulnerable, she offers hilarious and heartbreaking reflections on life, death, family, faith and love.
Eventually Nomi's grief - and a growing sense of hypocrisy - cause her to spiral ever downward to a climax that seems at once startling and inevitable. But even when one more loss is heaped on her piles of losses, Nomi maintains hope and finds the imagination and willingness to envision what lies beyond.
Few novels in recent years have generated as much excitement as A Complicated Kindness. Winner of the Governor General's Award and a Giller Prize Finalist, Miriam Toews' third novel has earned both critical acclaim and a long and steady position on our national best-seller lists.
Reseñas de la Crítica
2004, Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award - Fiction Book of the Year, Winner
2004, Governor General's Literary Awards - Fiction, Winner
2004, Scotiabank Giller Prize, Nominated
"...knockout novel....There's leave-taking in this book. But there's wholeness, too. It is a joy." (Jennifer Wells, Toronto Star)
"In novel full of original characters...Toews has created a feisty but appealing young heroine.... As an indictment against religious fundamentalism, A Complicated Kindness is timely. As a commentary on character it is fresh and inventive, and as storytelling it is first rate." (The London Free Press)
"Poignant.... Bold, tender and intelligent, this is a clear-eyed exploration of belief and belonging, and the irresistible urge to escape both." (Publishers Weekly)
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A treasure of Canadian letters, Miriam Toews has earned numerous awards. With Irma Voth, Toews delivers a witty novel of great humanity and emotional poignancy. Cast from her Mennonite family for marrying a Mexican man she barely knows, 19-year-old Irma finds herself in an untenable situation. But when a film crew arrives to document her insular community, Irma begins a remarkable journey to redemption and discovering all she may become.
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In my opinion, not Toews best.
- De Eric en 02-15-17
De: Miriam Toews
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The Flying Troutmans
- De: Miriam Toews
- Narrado por: Amy Rutherford
- Duración: 6 h y 22 m
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Days after being dumped by her boyfriend Marc in Paris - "he was heading off to an ashram and said we could communicate telepathically" - Hattie hears her sister Min has been checked into a psychiatric hospital, and finds herself flying back to Winnipeg to take care of Thebes and Logan, her niece and nephew. Not knowing what else to do, they set out on a road trip in search of the children's long-lost father, Cherkis. On their wayward journey, the Troutmans stay at scary motels, meet helpful hippies, and try to ignore the threatening noises coming from under the hood of their van.
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Stoner
- De: John Williams
- Narrado por: Robin Field
- Duración: 9 h y 46 m
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William Stoner is born at the end of the 19th century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar's life, far different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments.
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A story of sadness and serenity
- De Anton en 10-13-12
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All My Puny Sorrows
- De: Miriam Toews
- Narrado por: Erin Moon
- Duración: 11 h y 55 m
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Elf and Yoli are sisters. While on the surface Elfrieda's life is enviable (she's a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, and happily married,) and Yolandi's a mess (she's divorced and broke, with two teenagers growing up too quickly), they are fiercely close - raised in a Mennonite household and sharing the hardship of Elf's desire to end her life.
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Brilliant and beautiful
- De Mira en 03-17-16
De: Miriam Toews
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Women Talking
- De: Miriam Toews
- Narrado por: Matthew Edison
- Duración: 5 h y 57 m
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Based on actual events that happened between 2005 and 2009 in a remote Mennonite community where more than 100 girls and women were drugged unconscious and assaulted in the night by what they were told (by the men of the colony) were "ghosts" or "demons", Miriam Toews' bold and affecting novel Women Talking is an imagined response to these real events.
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Funny how a man read “Women talking” to me
- De Hilary Huhns en 12-30-22
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Fight Night
- De: Miriam Toews
- Narrado por: Miriam Toews, Georgia Toews
- Duración: 6 h y 19 m
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“You're a small thing,” Grandma writes, “and you must learn to fight.” Swiv's grandma, Elvira, has been fighting all her life. From her upbringing in a strict religious community, she has fought those who wanted to take away her joy, her independence, and her spirit. She has fought to make peace with her loved ones when they have chosen to leave her. And now, even as her health fails, Grandma is fighting for her family.
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LOVE LOVE LOVED!
- De Maryanne T. en 05-13-22
De: Miriam Toews
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Irma Voth
- A Novel
- De: Miriam Toews
- Narrado por: Erin Moon
- Duración: 7 h y 36 m
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A treasure of Canadian letters, Miriam Toews has earned numerous awards. With Irma Voth, Toews delivers a witty novel of great humanity and emotional poignancy. Cast from her Mennonite family for marrying a Mexican man she barely knows, 19-year-old Irma finds herself in an untenable situation. But when a film crew arrives to document her insular community, Irma begins a remarkable journey to redemption and discovering all she may become.
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In my opinion, not Toews best.
- De Eric en 02-15-17
De: Miriam Toews
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The Flying Troutmans
- De: Miriam Toews
- Narrado por: Amy Rutherford
- Duración: 6 h y 22 m
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Days after being dumped by her boyfriend Marc in Paris - "he was heading off to an ashram and said we could communicate telepathically" - Hattie hears her sister Min has been checked into a psychiatric hospital, and finds herself flying back to Winnipeg to take care of Thebes and Logan, her niece and nephew. Not knowing what else to do, they set out on a road trip in search of the children's long-lost father, Cherkis. On their wayward journey, the Troutmans stay at scary motels, meet helpful hippies, and try to ignore the threatening noises coming from under the hood of their van.
De: Miriam Toews
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Stoner
- De: John Williams
- Narrado por: Robin Field
- Duración: 9 h y 46 m
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William Stoner is born at the end of the 19th century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar's life, far different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments.
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A story of sadness and serenity
- De Anton en 10-13-12
De: John Williams
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- Jordan Deichen
- 02-06-23
Brilliant and compelling
A complicated kindness is wonderfully written. In less than 6 word sentences Toews can be down-to-earth, poignant and hilarious. Naomi will break your heart and make you laugh out loud at the same time.
There are so many descriptions and moments in this book that have lived in my head for years. It was lovely to hear the audiobook and experience it again with her delivery.
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- B. Hudson
- 01-13-23
Narration is rushed, lacks emotion.
The narration is very rushed, and there is a lack of emotion in the narrators voice, as if the words do not cause any particular reaction. Almost annoying to listen to. A pause or an emphasis would’ve been greatly appreciated.
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- Edward M Knapp
- 02-06-23
Excellent
What an amazing storyteller. To capture that teenage voice amid the confusion. Real craft , wonderful
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- Rachel Reaugh
- 07-02-20
...deeply satisfying!
A COMPLICATED KINDNESS written and performed by Canadian authour, Miriam Toews, makes me proud to be a Canadian.
A COMPLICATED KINDNESS was indeed a perfect name for this novel. Showing the life of a 16-year-old girl growing up as an orthodox Mennonite in a very secluded area, can only be complicated. This novel felt like a stream of esoteric ramblings, and, for the purpose of this novel, this was the only way it could have been written. I enjoyed how the novel was strictly from the point of view of the 16-year-old protagonist and, for the most part, it stayed in the present moment. When the book did jump around, I did not get lost, as I always knew that I was listening to a ‘moment to moment’ experience of a 16-year-old girl.
Miriam Toews performed the reading exceptionally well. If she had gotten someone else to read her novel it would not have come off so well.
I don't want to go into too much detail about this novel as it will give too much away. What's I will say is that A COMPLICATED KINDNESS took me on a roller coaster of Unexpected emotions, left me with many unanswered questions, and broke my heart. However, in the end, the unanswered questions, the Unexpected roller coaster of emotions, and the breaking heart made this novel very satisfying.
Life, yours and mine, is not neatly packaged up in yellow tissue paper and pink bows. Life is raw. Life is hard. Life is unexpected. And this is what makes life beautiful.
I feel that the author Miriam Toews did a fantastic job at showing the real blows of life from the perspective of a 16-year-old girl living in a very complicated world.
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- Cedella38
- 05-17-22
I wanted it to last forever
An amazing story teller, Miriam Toews captures the reader from the start. A complicated story of love, rebellion, sacrifice and hope.
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- Amy Leishman
- 12-22-23
Engrossing inner dialogue
Fascinating insight at the development of a teenage girl’s world view immersed in a high demand religious community.
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- Susan M. Scott
- 04-15-24
Struggling to make sense of pain.
This story is told in first person by a 15-16 year of age girl named Naomi. Her sister, when tiny, could not pronounce Naomi so she was ever after called Nomi by her family and community. The girl relates what happens in her life, depicting the slow disintegration of her family. The author shows how confusion, loss, grief, and intense anger can affect a bright teenage girl. She shows how dangerous it is for her to have unresolved grief and loss. The religious community plays a large role in why her family fell apart. I feel the author demonstrated that the dad understood how terrible it was for her. And he ultimately did something to help her.
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