The Wonder - Nominiert: Bord Gáis Energy Eason Novel of the Year 2016, Nominiert: Kerry Group Irish Novel Award 2017, Nominiert: International Dublin Literary Award 2018
Verlag | Macmillan Publishers International |
Auflage | 2017 |
Seiten | 368 |
Format | 13 x 19,7 x 2,3 cm |
Gewicht | 266 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
ISBN-10 | 1509818405 |
EAN | 9781509818402 |
Bestell-Nr | 50981840UA |
A chilling novel from the bestselling author of Room.
Klappentext:
An eleven-year-old girl stops eating, but remains miraculously alive and well. A nurse, sent to investigate whether she is a fraud, meets a journalist hungry for a story . . .
Set in the Irish Midlands in the 1850s, Emma Donoghue\'s The Wonder - inspired by numerous European and North American cases of \'fasting girls\' between the sixteenth century and the twentieth - is a psychological thriller about a child\'s murder threatening to happen in slow motion before our eyes. Pitting all the seductions of fundamentalism against sense and love, it is a searing examination of what nourishes us, body and soul.
Rezension:
Emma Donoghue\'s writing is superb alchemy, changing innocence into horror and horror into tenderness Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler\'s Wife