THE FLYING TROUTMANS
The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews is a heartbreaking and funny story of a family in search of itself, from one of Canada's bestselling and best-loved authors.
'In this chaotic world the only stability comes from our love for one another, quirks and all. In Toews's hands, that can be funny or heartbreaking, usually at the same time.' Washington Post
Meet the Troutmans. Hattie is living in Paris, city of romance, but has just been dumped by her boyfriend. Min, her sister back in Canada, is going through a particularly dark period. And Min's two kids, Logan and Thebes, are not talking and talking way too much, respectively. When Hattie receives a phone call from eleven-year-old Thebes, begging her to return to Canada, she arrives home to find Min on her way to a psychiatric ward, and becomes responsible for her niece and nephew. Realising that she is way out of her league, Hattie hatches a plan to find the kids' long-lost father. With only the most tenuous lead to go on, she piles Logan and Thebes into the family van, and they head south...
MIRIAM TOEWS
Miriam Toews is the author of seven novels: Summer of My Amazing Luck, A Boy of Good Breeding, A Complicated Kindness, The Flying Troutmans, Irma Voth, All My Puny Sorrows, and Women Talking, and one work of non-fiction, Swing Low: A Life. She is a winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction, the Libris Award for Fiction Book of the Year, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and the Writers Trust Marian Engel Timothy Findley Award. She lives in Toronto.
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TOEWS MIRIAM
Miriam Toews nació en Steinbach, Manitoba, Canadá, en 1964. Es escritora, periodista y actriz de ascendencia menonita. Estudió Cinematografía en la Universidad de Manitoba y Periodismo en el King's College de Halifax. Ha vivido en Montreal, Londres y Winnipeg. Su carrera literaria comenzó con la novela Summer of My Amazing Luck en 1996, y ha publicado obras como Complicada bondad, Ellas hablan, Pequeñas desgracias sin importancia y No dejar que se apague el fuego. Ha recibido premios como el Governor General's Award for Fiction y el Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. También actuó en la película Luz silenciosa de Carlos Reygadas, experiencia que inspiró su novela Irma Voth.
