The Pull of the Stars: A Novel
Autor Emma Donoghueen Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 iul 2021
Dublin, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the great flu. A small world of work, risk, death and unlooked-for love, by the bestselling author of The Wonder and Room.
In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city centre, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new flu are quarantined together. Into Julia’s regimented world step two outsiders—Doctor Kathleen Lynn, on the run from the police, and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney.
In the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over three days, these women change each other’s lives in unexpected ways. They lose patients to this baffling pandemic, but they also shepherd new life into a fearful world. With tireless tenderness and humanity, caregivers and mothers alike somehow do their impossible work.
In The Pull of the Stars, Emma Donoghue once again finds the light in the darkness in this new classic of hope and survival against all odds.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781443461801
ISBN-10: 1443461806
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția HarperPerennial
ISBN-10: 1443461806
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția HarperPerennial
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Recenzii
"Donoghue. . . . offers vivid characters and a gripping portrait of a world beset by a pandemic and political uncertainty. A fascinating read in these difficult times." — Booklist (starred review)
“Darkly compelling, illuminated by the light of compassion and tenderness: Donoghue’s best novel since Room.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Searing… Donoghue’s evocation of the 1918 flu, and the valor it demands of health-care workers, will stay with readers.” — Publishers Weekly
“Eerily relevant” — Elle (Canada)
“Donoghue, a first-rate historical novelist, skillfully weaves the era’s primitive medical understanding and social prejudices into her moving story of three caregivers with little but loving care to give.” — Maclean's
“Impeccably researched and immensely readable, as always with Donoghue.” — Toronto Star
“Pandemic fiction and historical fiction find a home together in this eerily well-timed novel from the author of Room and The Wonder.” — The Globe and Mail
“A timely commentary not only on life and death, but also on the workings of fate. . . . As always, Donoghue catches the reader’s attention. Her look at both unforeseen plague and the dangerous rituals of childbirth is riveting and moving. In her disturbing but thought-provoking tale, hope and empathy appear in unexpected ways as patients and nurses alter each other’s lives.” — London Free Press
"The Pull of the Stars draws you into a world that is at once expansive and ever so small. Donoghue’s deft ability to climb up and down the ladder of abstraction allows her to reach great heights and heartbreaking lows. It offers the reader a universe to explore, shooting stars and all." — Zoomer Magazine
“A visceral, harrowing, and revelatory vision of life, death, and love in a time of pandemic. This novel is stunning." — Emily St. John Mandel, author of The Glass Hotel and Station Eleven
“I did not want to stop reading for even a moment.” — Parrysound.com
“Darkly compelling, illuminated by the light of compassion and tenderness: Donoghue’s best novel since Room.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Searing… Donoghue’s evocation of the 1918 flu, and the valor it demands of health-care workers, will stay with readers.” — Publishers Weekly
“Eerily relevant” — Elle (Canada)
“Donoghue, a first-rate historical novelist, skillfully weaves the era’s primitive medical understanding and social prejudices into her moving story of three caregivers with little but loving care to give.” — Maclean's
“Impeccably researched and immensely readable, as always with Donoghue.” — Toronto Star
“Pandemic fiction and historical fiction find a home together in this eerily well-timed novel from the author of Room and The Wonder.” — The Globe and Mail
“A timely commentary not only on life and death, but also on the workings of fate. . . . As always, Donoghue catches the reader’s attention. Her look at both unforeseen plague and the dangerous rituals of childbirth is riveting and moving. In her disturbing but thought-provoking tale, hope and empathy appear in unexpected ways as patients and nurses alter each other’s lives.” — London Free Press
"The Pull of the Stars draws you into a world that is at once expansive and ever so small. Donoghue’s deft ability to climb up and down the ladder of abstraction allows her to reach great heights and heartbreaking lows. It offers the reader a universe to explore, shooting stars and all." — Zoomer Magazine
“A visceral, harrowing, and revelatory vision of life, death, and love in a time of pandemic. This novel is stunning." — Emily St. John Mandel, author of The Glass Hotel and Station Eleven
“I did not want to stop reading for even a moment.” — Parrysound.com
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Dublin, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu. A small world of work, risk, death, and unlooked-for love, from bestselling author Emma Donoghue.
'Eerily reminiscent of our current global health crisis, The Pull of the Stars brings readers intimately close to a world where health care workers risk it all to keep their patients alive'
Time
'Emma Donoghue's latest is getting an early release, and it's clear to understand why: In 1918 at the height of the Great Flu in Ireland, sick, pregnant women are quarantined together in a hospital while a group of overworked nurses tries to navigate their patients through the darkness'
Marie Claire
'Donoghue offers vivid characters and a gripping portrait of a world beset by a pandemic and political uncertainty. A fascinating read in these difficult times.'
Booklist
Notă biografică
Born in Dublin in 1969, Emma Donoghue is an Irish emigrant twice over: she spent eight years in Cambridge doing a PhD in eighteenth-century literature before moving to London, Ontario, where she lives with her partner and their two children. She also migrates between genres, writing literary history, biography, stage and radio plays as well as fairy tales and short stories. She is best known for her novels, which range from the historical (Slammerkin, Life Mask, Landing, The Sealed Letter) to the contemporary (Stir-Fry, Hood, Landing). Her international bestseller Room was a New York Times Best Book of 2010 and was a finalist for the Man Booker, Commonwealth, and Orange Prizes. For more information, visit www.emmadonoghue.com.