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| Author | Miriam Toews |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
Publication date | 2014 |
| Publication place | Canada |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Preceded by | Irma Voth |
All My Puny Sorrows is the sixth novel by Canadian writer Miriam Toews. The novel won the 2014 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize, the 2015 Folio Prize for Literature, and the 2015 Wellcome Book Prize. Toews has said that the novel draws heavily on the events leading up to the 2010 suicide of her sister, Marjorie.[1]
- ^ Bethune, Brian (11 October 2014). "Miriam Toews wrestles with suicide in her latest quest for narrative truth". Maclean's.