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Now a major film from the makers of Normal People and Room, starring Florence Pugh and streaming on Netflix.'An old-school page turner with crackling intensity' Stephen King'Powerful, compulsively readable' Irish TimesAn 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.
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The Wonder, Emma Donoghue
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- Pubblicato
- 2022
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- Titolo
- The Wonder
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Emma Donoghue
- Editore
- Picador
- Pubblicato
- 2022
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 368
- ISBN10
- 1529093007
- ISBN13
- 9781529093001
- Serie
- Tag
- Narrativa, Gialli & Thriller, Prosa storica, Gialli, Temi religiosi, Temi cristiani, Fede, XIX Secolo, Inghilterra, Adattato in un film, Irlanda, Chiesa Cattolica, Letteratura irlandese, Infanzia, Povertà, Infermieristica, Assistenza, Emigrazione, Miracoli, Incesto, Digitale, Fanatismo, Fanatismo religioso, Pensiero infantile
- Prima pubblicazione
- 2016
- Titolo originale
- The Wonder
- Valutazione
- 3,6 su 5
- Descrizione
- Now a major film from the makers of Normal People and Room, starring Florence Pugh and streaming on Netflix.'An old-school page turner with crackling intensity' Stephen King'Powerful, compulsively readable' Irish TimesAn 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.