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- 368 stránok
- 13 hodin čítania
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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, Donoghueová Emma
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- Rok vydania
- 2022
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- Titul
- The Wonder
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autori
- Donoghueová Emma
- Vydavateľ
- Picador
- Rok vydania
- 2022
- Väzba
- mäkká
- Počet strán
- 368
- ISBN10
- 1529093007
- ISBN13
- 9781529093001
- Série
- Štítky
- Beletria, Detektívky & Thriller, Historické romány, Detektívky, Náboženské témy, Kresťanské témy, Anglicko, 19. storočie, Viera, Sfilmované, Írsko, Katolícka cirkev, Detstvo, Írska literatúra, Chudoba, Ošetrovateľstvo, Emigrácia, Zázraky, Incest, Pôst, Fanatizmus, Náboženský fanatizmus, Myslenie dieťaťa
- Prvé vydanie
- 2016
- Pôvodný názov
- The Wonder
- Hodnotenie
- 3,6 z 5
- Anotácia
- 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.