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The Wonder
Emma Donoghue
The Wonder
Emma Donoghue
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.
Media | Books Book |
Released | May 18, 2017 |
ISBN13 | 9781509820788 |
Publishers | Picador |
Genre | Fiction |
Pages | 304 |
Dimensions | 507 g (Weight (estimated)) |
Language | English |
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