{"product_id":"9780008722845","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 triumph - a meditation on writing, suicide, guilt and silence' \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 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 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 A Truce That Is Not Peace is the first time Toews has written about her own life in nonfiction. Wildly inventive yet masterfully controlled; wrenching and joyful - this is Miriam Toews at her dazzling best, remaking her world and inventing an astonishing new literary form to contain it.\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 \n\u003cbr\u003e '[Toews] does not shy away from her own vulnerability, and writes with both candour and humour'\n\u003cbr\u003e Observer\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 \n\u003cbr\u003e 'Nothing short of a masterpiece'\n\u003cbr\u003e San Francisco Chronicle \n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e 'This is memoir perfection ... I adored it' Cariad Lloyd, author of You Are Not Alone\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 'Tragi-comic, and incredibly moving ... essential reading for turbulent times' Laura van den Berg, author of The Third Hotel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e 'Toews has done something very rare: shown us a true inner world' Samuel Graydon, author of Einstein in Time and Space\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e 'An affirmation of Life in all its richness and variety ... remarkable' Celia Paul, author of Self-Portrait\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e 'I would have read another thousand chapters' Catherine Newman, author of Sandwich\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e 'Piercing and distilled, a masterpiece in vulnerability and performance' Hannah Pittard, author of We Are Too Many\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":48658403164395,"sku":"EB_LI0400_C02-01_SIMS","price":39.19,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9780008722845-1.jpg?v=1783382062","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/zh\/products\/9780008722845","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}