Emma Donoghue
The Wonder

2022 | Nakladatelství Bohemian Ventures, spol. s r.o.

Eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell 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. Eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell 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.

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Stav:	nová
Vazba:	brožovaná
Počet stran:	349
Jazyk:	anglicky
ISBN10:	1529093007
ISBN:	9781529093001
Vydání:	1
Vystaveno:	23. 2. 2025 22:40
Číslo položky:	1150134

O autorovi

Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue je spisovatelka, literární historička a autorka řady povídek a dramat. Narodila se v akademicky vzdělané rodině jako nejmladší z osmi dětí. Na Dublinské univerzitě vystudovala angličtinu a francouzštinu. Doktorát získala po studiu na University of Cambridge. Má syna a dceru. Několik jejích románů bylo ověnčeno literárními cenami.

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