- Grief, Divorced women, Women pianists, Sisters
Elfrieda, a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, happily married: she wants to die. Yolandi, divorced, broke, sleeping with the wrong men as she tries to find true love: she desperately wants to keep her older sister alive.
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Contemporary, classical in form, overwhelming and prestige.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Miriam Toews
- First published
- 2014
- Pages
- 336
- Publisher
- McSweeney's Publishing, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, Faber & Faber, Limited
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English, French
- ISBN
- 9780571305308
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