The Wonder
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| Genre: | Fiction |
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| Language : | English |
| Published: | January 01, 2016 |
| Edition: | 10th |
Hardcover | |
| ISBN13: | 9781509818389 |
| ISBN10: | 1509818383 |
| Pages: | 291 |
| Dimensions: | 5.31 x 8.5 x 0.98 inches |
| Weight: | 430.91 g |
About the Book
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.
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.