Parametry
- 368 stránek
- 13 hodin čtení
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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
- Jazyk
- Rok vydání
- 2022
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- Titul
- The Wonder
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autoři
- Emma Donoghue
- Vydavatel
- Picador
- Rok vydání
- 2022
- Vazba
- měkká
- Počet stran
- 368
- ISBN10
- 1529093007
- ISBN13
- 9781529093001
- Série
- Štítky
- Beletrie, Detektivky & Thriller, Historické romány, Detektivky, Náboženská témata, Křesťanská témata, Víra, 19. století, Anglie, Zfilmováno, Irsko, Katolická církev, Irská literatura, Dětství, Chudoba, Ošetřovatelství, pečovatelství, Emigrace, Zázraky, Incest, Půst, Fanatismus, Náboženský fanatismus, Myšlení dítěte
- První vydání
- 2016
- Původní název
- The Wonder
- Hodnocení
- 3,6 z 5
- Anotace
- 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.