All My Puny Sorrows
Miriam Toews
£9.99
Mr B's review
Elf and Yoli are sisters who grew up in a very restrictive Mennonite community, but who now inhabit very different worlds: Elf is a world-renowned pianist constantly on the go, and Yoli is a mother of two on the brink of divorce going nowhere fast. Their worlds are suddenly reduced to a single hospital room when Elf attempts suicide – again. A deeply heartfelt novel that explores inherited trauma and the nature of kindness. – Laura
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Shortlisted for the Folio Prize 2015
Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2015
Sunday Times Top Choice Summer Read
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Elf and Yoli are two smart, loving sisters.
Elf is a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, happily married: she wants to die.
Yoli is divorced, broke, sleeping with the wrong men: she desperately wants to keep her older sister alive.
When Elf’s latest suicide attempt leaves her hospitalised weeks before her highly anticipated world tour, Yoli is forced to confront the impossible question of whether it is better to let a loved one go.
‘The novel she has written – so exquisitely that you’ll want to savour every word – reads as if it has been wrenched from her heart.’ Christina Patterson, Sunday Times
‘[Toews] has produced a masterly book of such precise dignity. It is, also against all the odds, at times a desperately humorous novel.’ Daily Mail
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