The Wonder - Donoghue, Emma
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"In a small Irish village, tourists flock to the cabin of eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell, who is said to have eaten nothing for months. Lib Wright, a veteran of Florence Nightingale's Crimean campaign, is hired to keep watch over the girl. An educated skeptic, Lib expects to expose the fast as a hoax within days. But the long hours she spends with Anna begin to chip away at her assumptions about the child, the Irish and their faith, and herself. Is Anna a fraud or a 'living wonder'? Or is something more sinister unfolding before Lib's very eyes? Written with all the propulsive tension that…mehr

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"In a small Irish village, tourists flock to the cabin of eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell, who is said to have eaten nothing for months. Lib Wright, a veteran of Florence Nightingale's Crimean campaign, is hired to keep watch over the girl. An educated skeptic, Lib expects to expose the fast as a hoax within days. But the long hours she spends with Anna begin to chip away at her assumptions about the child, the Irish and their faith, and herself. Is Anna a fraud or a 'living wonder'? Or is something more sinister unfolding before Lib's very eyes? Written with all the propulsive tension that made Room a worldwide bestseller, The Wonder is at once a psychological thriller about love pitted against evil and the spellbinding story of two strangers--brought together by a dark secret--and the unlikely bond that transforms both of their lives"--Back cover.
Autorenporträt
Born in Dublin in 1969, and now living in Canada, Emma Donoghue writes fiction (novels and short stories, contemporary and historical, most recently The Pull of the Stars), as well as drama for screen and stage.  Room was a New York Times Best Book of 2010 and a finalist for the Man Booker, Commonwealth, and Orange Prizes, selling between two and three million copies in forty languages. Donoghue was nominated for an Academy Award for her 2015 adaptation starring Brie Larson. She co-wrote the screenplay for the film of her 2016 novel The Wonder, starring Florence Pugh, coming from Netflix. For more information, visit www.emmadonoghue.com.