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Irma voth 2011 is the fifth novel by canadian author miriam toews. Click to read more about irma voth by miriam toews. The novel, about a mennonite teenager whose life is transformed when a bohemian film crew comes to her settlement to make a film about mennonites, was informed by toews experience as lead actress in silent light, the awardwinning 2007 film written and directed by mexican filmmaker carlos reygadas. Miriam toews is the author of seven bestselling novels, all my puny sorrows, summer of my amazing luck, a boy of good breeding, a complicated kindness, the flying troutmans, irma voth, and women talking and one work of nonfiction, swing low. With irma voth, toews delivers a witty novel of great humanity and emotional poignancy. The first edition of the novel was published in 1931, and was written by irma s.
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