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Complicated Kindness

by Miriam Toews
RM38.19 MYR
Complicated Kindness - Thryft
Complicated Kindness - Thryft
  • Scotiabank Giller Prize Nominee (2004)
  • Governor General's Literary Awards / Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général for Fiction (2004)
  • Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award for Fiction Book (2005)
  • Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award (2005)
  • CBC Canada Reads (2006)
  • McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award (2004)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Complicated Kindness

by Miriam Toews
RM38.19 MYR
ISBN: 9780571223992
Authors: Miriam Toews
Publisher: FABER & FABER INC *
Date of Publication: 2004-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Young Adult, Contemporary
Goodreads rating: 3.68
(rated by 25984 readers)

Description

In this stunning coming-of-age novel, award-winner Miriam Toews balances grief and hope in the voice of a witty, beleaguered teenager whose family is shattered by fundamentalist Christianity"Half of our family, the better-looking half, is missing," Nomi Nickel tells us at the beginning of A Complicated Kindness . Left alone with her sad, peculiar father, her days are spent piecing together why her mother and sister have disappeared and contemplating her inevitable career at Happy Family Farms, a chicken slaughterhouse on the outskirts of East Village. Not the East Village in New York City where Nomi would prefer to live, but an oppressive town founded by Mennonites on the cold, flat plains of Manitoba, Canada.This darkly funny novel is the world according to the unforgettable Nomi, a bewildered and wry sixteen-year-old trapped in a town governed by fundamentalist religion and in the shattered remains of a family it destroyed. In Nomi's droll, refreshing voice, we're told the story of an eccentric, loving family that falls apart as each member lands on a collision course with the only community any of them have ever known. A work of fierce humor and tragedy by a writer who has taken the American market by storm, this searing, tender, comic testament to family love will break your heart.
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  • Scotiabank Giller Prize Nominee (2004)
  • Governor General's Literary Awards / Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général for Fiction (2004)
  • Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award for Fiction Book (2005)
  • Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award (2005)
  • CBC Canada Reads (2006)
  • McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award (2004)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.