Author: DONOGHUE, EMMA Title: The Wonder
Description: Macmillan UK. Pocket. Pp: 256. 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. nSet 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. ISBN: 9781509820788. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9781509820788
Price: EUR 6.00 = appr. US$ 6.52 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 1525246
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