{"product_id":"a-truce-that-is-not-peace-by-miriam-toews-9780008722883","title":"A Truce That Is Not Peace","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2025\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘The best memoir you will read all year’\u003c\/strong\u003e — NICK HORNBY\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘A triumphant meditation on loss, literature and the unspoken’\u003c\/strong\u003e — \u003cem\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Curious and idiosyncratic and enjoyable’\u003c\/strong\u003e — ZADIE SMITH\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Darkly moving and heart-wrenchingly funny’\u003c\/strong\u003e — \u003cem\u003eMARIE CLAIRE\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe internationally bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eWomen Talking\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAll My Puny Sorrows\u003c\/em\u003e, Miriam Toews, returns with a singular memoir celebrating disobedient memory, wit, writing and life.\u003c\/strong\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\u003cstrong\u003eA book of the year in the \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTIME\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/em\u003e, NPR, \u003cem\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/em\u003e and LitHub.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Toews knows exactly how to extract hilarity from horrifying events’\u003c\/strong\u003e — \u003cem\u003eTHE TIMES\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Memoir perfection … I adored it’\u003c\/strong\u003e — CARIAD LLOYD, author of \u003cem\u003eYou Are Not Alone\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘I can’t get enough of Miriam Toews’ writing’\u003c\/strong\u003e — NINA STIBBE, author of \u003cem\u003eWent to London, Took the Dog\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Beautiful, hilarious, devastating’\u003c\/strong\u003e — PAULA HAWKINS, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Blue Hour\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Brilliant … it broke my heart in the best of ways’\u003c\/strong\u003e — SHARLENE TEO, author of \u003cem\u003ePonti\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘A grief memoir in the vein of Joan Didion’s \u003cem\u003eBlue Nights\u003c\/em\u003e’\u003c\/strong\u003e — \u003cem\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Truce That Is Not Peace\u003c\/em\u003e was a #1 bestseller in Canada in w\/c 06\/09\/2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Arotahi Agency","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48335320678636,"sku":"9780008722883","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780008722883-a-truce-that-is-not-peace-1.jpg?v=1788928679","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/a-truce-that-is-not-peace-by-miriam-toews-9780008722883","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}