You are a small thing, and you must learn to fight.
Swiv has taken her grandmother's advice too literally. Now she's at home, suspended from school. Mom is pregnant and preoccupied - and so Swiv is in the older woman's charge, receiving a very different form of education from a teacher with a style all her own.
Grandma likes her stories fast, troublesome and funny. She's known the very worst that life can throw at you - and has met it every time with a wild, unnamable spirit, fighting for joy and independence every step of the way. But will maths lessons based on Amish jigsaws and classes on How to Dig a Winter Grave inspire the same fire in Swiv, and ensure it never goes out?
Time is running short. Grandma's health is failing, the baby is on the way, as a family of three extraordinary women prepare to face life's great changes together.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571370726
Idioma: Inglés
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 07/10/2021
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Miriam Toews
Nació en Steinbach, Canadá, en 1964. Entre sus títulos más conocidos destacan las novelas Complicada bondad (Anagrama, 2007) y Ellas hablan (Sexto Piso, 2020). Su obra ha sido galardonada con una decena de premios, entre ellos los dos más importantes que puede recibir un autor canadiense: el Governor General's Award for Fiction y el Premio Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction (en dos ocasiones). Pequeñas desgracias sin importancia ha sido recientemente adaptada al cine.