{"product_id":"9780008722883","title":"A Truce That Is Not Peace","description":"\u003cp\u003eTHE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \n\u003cbr\u003e A FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2025\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e 'The best memoir you will read all year' NICK HORNBY\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \n\u003cbr\u003e 'A triumphant meditation on loss, literature and the unspoken'\n\u003cbr\u003e GUARDIAN\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e 'Curious and idiosyncratic and enjoyable' ZADIE SMITH\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \n\u003cbr\u003e 'Darkly moving and heart-wrenchingly funny' \n\u003cbr\u003e MARIE CLAIRE\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \n\u003cbr\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. \n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\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\n\n\u003cp\u003e \n\u003cbr\u003e A book of the year in the Guardian, New Yorker, TIME, Washington Post, New Statesman, NPR, Irish Times and LitHub.\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \n\u003cbr\u003e 'Toews knows exactly how to extract hilarity from horrifying events'\n\u003cbr\u003e THE TIMES\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e 'Memoir perfection ... I adored it' CARIAD LLOYD, author of You Are Not Alone\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e 'I can't get enough of Miriam's Toews' writing' NINA STIBBE, author of Went to London, Took the Dog\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e 'Beautiful, hilarious, devastating' PAULA HAWKINS, author of The Blue Hour\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e 'Brilliant ... it broke my heart in the best of ways' SHARLENE TEO, author of Ponti\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \n\u003cbr\u003e 'A grief memoir in the vein of Joan Didion's Blue Nights' \n\u003cbr\u003e NEW YORK TIMES\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e A Truce That Is Not Peace was a #1 bestseller in Canada in w\/c 06\/09\/2025\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fourth Estate Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48996276863211,"sku":"EB_LI0500_00000_SIMS","price":25.07,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9780008722883-1.jpg?v=1784278485","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9780008722883","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}