The Wonder
Autor Emma Donoghueen Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 sep 2017
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*The latest masterpiece by Emma Donoghue, bestselling author ofRoom*
*The latest masterpiece by Emma Donoghue, bestselling author ofRoom*
In
the
latest
masterpiece
by
Emma
Donoghue,
bestselling
author
ofRoom,
an
English
nurse
brought
to
a
small
Irish
village
to
observe
what
appears
to
be
a
miracle-a
girl
said
to
have
survived
without
food
for
months-soon
finds
herself
fighting
to
save
the
child's
life.
Tourists flock to the cabin of eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell, who believes herself to be living off manna from heaven, and a journalist is sent to cover the sensation. Lib Wright, a veteran of Florence Nightingale's Crimean campaign, is hired to keep watch over the girl.
Written with all the propulsive tension that madeRooma huge bestseller, THE WONDER works beautifully on many levels--a tale of two strangers who transform each other's lives, a powerful psychological thriller, and a story of love pitted against evil.
Tourists flock to the cabin of eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell, who believes herself to be living off manna from heaven, and a journalist is sent to cover the sensation. Lib Wright, a veteran of Florence Nightingale's Crimean campaign, is hired to keep watch over the girl.
Written with all the propulsive tension that madeRooma huge bestseller, THE WONDER works beautifully on many levels--a tale of two strangers who transform each other's lives, a powerful psychological thriller, and a story of love pitted against evil.
ACCLAIM
FORTHE
WONDER:"Deliciously
gothic....Dark
and
vivid,
with
complicated
characters,
this
is
a
novel
that
lodges
itself
deep"
(USA
Today,3/4
stars);"Heartbreaking
andtranscendent"(New
York
Times);"A
fable
as
lean
and
discomfiting
as
Anna's
dwindling
body....
Donoghue
keeps
us
riveted"
(Chicago
Tribune);"Donoghue
poses
powerful
questions
about
faith
and
belief"
(Newsday)
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316393867
ISBN-10: 031639386X
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 143 x 210 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
ISBN-10: 031639386X
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 143 x 210 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
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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
(Frog
Music,
Slammerkin,Life
Mask,Landing,The
Sealed
Letter)
to
the
contemporary
(Stir-Fry,Hood,Landing).
Her
international
bestsellerRoomwas
aNew
York
TimesBest
Book
of
2010
and
was
a
finalist
for
the
Man
Booker,
Commonwealth,
and
Orange
Prizes.
Recenzii
"Fascinating....
LikeThe
Turn
of
the
Screw,
the
novel
opens
irresistibly,
when
a
young
woman
with
a
troubled
past
gets
an
enigmatic
posting
in
a
remote
place....
Heartbreaking
and
transcendent
and
almost
religious
in
itself."—Sarah
Lyall,New
York
Times
"A fine, fact-based historical novel, an old-school page turner...Donoghue has written, with crackling intensity, about [spirituality's] power to destroy."—Stephen King,New York Times Book Review
"[Donoghue's] contemporary thrillerRoommade [her] an international bestseller, but this gripping tale offers a welcome reminder that her historical fiction is equally fine."—Kirkus Reviews(starred review)
"Outstanding.... Exploring the nature of faith and trust with heartrending intensity, Donoghue's superb novel will leave few unaffected."—Sarah Johnson,Booklist(starred review)
"Donoghue demonstrates her versatility by dabbling in a wide range of literary styles in this latest novel.... The closely imagined, intricately drawn story possesses many of the same alluring qualities as her bestseller,Room. .... Donoghue's engrossing novel is loaded with descriptions of period customs and 19th-century Catholic devotional objects and prayers...[and] asks daring questions about just how far some might go to prove their faith."—Publishers Weekly(starred review)
"Donoghue is known for her bestselling novel,Room.... [But] she is also well versed in historical fiction. THE WONDER brings together the best of all, combining a gracefully tense, young voice with a richly detailed historical setting."—The Millions
"Readers of historical fiction will gravitate to this tale."—Mary Ann Gwinn,Seattle Times
"A riveting allegory about the trickle-down effect of trauma."—Megan O'Grady,Vogue
"Donoghue poses powerful questions about faith and belief all the while crafting a compelling story and an evocative portrait of 19th-century Irish provincial society."—Tom Beer,Newsday
"Donoghue's superb thriller will keep readers hanging on to every word, pondering how far one will go to prove her faith."—Liz Loerke,Real Simple
"Gripping."—Claire Stern,InStyle.com
"What at first seems a simple matter becomes far more-stick with it, the payoff is there."—Steph Opitz,Marie Claire
"Fresh and unusually lively historical fiction. [Donoghue's] latest novel brings together both her preoccupation with child peril and her gift for history."—Boris Kachka,Vulture
"A haunting novel about good vs. evil."—Brenda Janowitz,PopSugar
"Like [Room], THE WONDER explores a dark, insular, and rigidly controlled environment.... Donoghue's clever use of an outsider as narrator lets her explain anomalies to us-what a creepie is (a log stool) and why people tie rags to a tree (to hold their pain)-as she encounters them herself. But there is more to this mystery than superstitions and local dialect. Lib must decipher the private truths of Anna and her family, who have closed ranks in grief over the loss of a son. She must puzzle out the community itself and its contradictory beliefs in religion, science, and tradition. And Lib has her own sorrowful secrets, her own need for personal redemption. Donoghue deftly pairs the two stories, and as Lib uncovers the truth about Anna, she gradually owns the truth about herself."—Roxana Robinson,O, The Oprah Magazine
"Riveting.... Highly recommended."—Valerie Koehler,Literary Hub
"THE WONDER by Emma Donoghue is just that: 'a wonder' of a story about religious delusion and self-denial [that] teem[s] with drama and great moral questions.... Donoghue manages to engage larger mysteries of faith, doubt and evil without sacrificing the lyricism of her language or the suspense of her storyline."—Maureen Corrigan,Fresh Air
"Donoghue proves herself endlessly inventive.... This is the kind of book that will keep you up at nightandmake you smarter."--Julie Buntin,Cosmopolitan
"Rich hauls of historical research, deeply excavated but lightly borne.... [An] ingenious telling."--David Kipen,Wall Street Journal
"All spectacle and gothic horror and inevitably hard to put down."—Stassa Edwards,Jezebel
"Has that vivid, ripped-from-the-headlines feel that comes from an author's utter fascination with a real-world subject.... THE WONDER is deliciously gothic.... Dark and vivid, with complicated characters, this is a novel that lodges itself deep."—Steph Cha,USA Today,3/4 stars
"Fodder for endless book club debates."—Meghan O'Gieblyn,Los Angeles Review of Books
"A fine work, adept and compelling in voice, plot, and moral complexity.... Donoghue deals out the cards with real skill."—Katherine A. Powers,Boston Globe
"A locked-room mystery, set in atmospheric 19th-century Ireland and as spare, in its own way, asRoom.... A fable as lean and discomfiting as Anna's dwindling body.... Donoghue keeps us riveted to Lib's perspective throughout.... Thanks to the complexity of Donoghue's ideas, there's plenty on which to ruminate."—Amy Gentry,Chicago Tribune
"Donoghue, a writer of great vitality and generosity-one gets the sense that she would gladly have her characters over for dinner, as long as they'd agree to eat-has been drawn repeatedly to the genre of historical fiction not so much to inhabit or reinterpret the past as to try to fit together its overlooked, missing pieces.... Fiction is small solace for history's grief, but it's one way to set the record straight."—Alexandra Schwartz,New Yorker
"A blazing historical novel."—Marion Winik,Newsday
"Donoghue is a master of plot, and her prose is especially exquisite in depicting ambiguity...
Lib is a heroine the modern woman can admire."—Sarah Begley,Time Magazine
"As in "Room," Ms. Donoghue proves a shrewd observer of the parental urge to distort reality to protect children-and themselves"—Sam Sacks,The Wall Street Journal
"Donoghue's measured prose is at its best when depicting damaged and failing flesh with extraordinarily vivid economy"—Financial Times
"An excellent new novel that is as much a mystery as it is an analysis of the extent to which some people are governed by their faith."—Houston Chronicle
"A haunting page-turner, filled with Donoghue's enchanting phrasemaking—The Seattle Times
"This a completely engrossing read-you will barely be able to tear yourself away from it".—Next Avenue
"A fine, fact-based historical novel, an old-school page turner...Donoghue has written, with crackling intensity, about [spirituality's] power to destroy."—Stephen King,New York Times Book Review
"[Donoghue's] contemporary thrillerRoommade [her] an international bestseller, but this gripping tale offers a welcome reminder that her historical fiction is equally fine."—Kirkus Reviews(starred review)
"Outstanding.... Exploring the nature of faith and trust with heartrending intensity, Donoghue's superb novel will leave few unaffected."—Sarah Johnson,Booklist(starred review)
"Donoghue demonstrates her versatility by dabbling in a wide range of literary styles in this latest novel.... The closely imagined, intricately drawn story possesses many of the same alluring qualities as her bestseller,Room. .... Donoghue's engrossing novel is loaded with descriptions of period customs and 19th-century Catholic devotional objects and prayers...[and] asks daring questions about just how far some might go to prove their faith."—Publishers Weekly(starred review)
"Donoghue is known for her bestselling novel,Room.... [But] she is also well versed in historical fiction. THE WONDER brings together the best of all, combining a gracefully tense, young voice with a richly detailed historical setting."—The Millions
"Readers of historical fiction will gravitate to this tale."—Mary Ann Gwinn,Seattle Times
"A riveting allegory about the trickle-down effect of trauma."—Megan O'Grady,Vogue
"Donoghue poses powerful questions about faith and belief all the while crafting a compelling story and an evocative portrait of 19th-century Irish provincial society."—Tom Beer,Newsday
"Donoghue's superb thriller will keep readers hanging on to every word, pondering how far one will go to prove her faith."—Liz Loerke,Real Simple
"Gripping."—Claire Stern,InStyle.com
"What at first seems a simple matter becomes far more-stick with it, the payoff is there."—Steph Opitz,Marie Claire
"Fresh and unusually lively historical fiction. [Donoghue's] latest novel brings together both her preoccupation with child peril and her gift for history."—Boris Kachka,Vulture
"A haunting novel about good vs. evil."—Brenda Janowitz,PopSugar
"Like [Room], THE WONDER explores a dark, insular, and rigidly controlled environment.... Donoghue's clever use of an outsider as narrator lets her explain anomalies to us-what a creepie is (a log stool) and why people tie rags to a tree (to hold their pain)-as she encounters them herself. But there is more to this mystery than superstitions and local dialect. Lib must decipher the private truths of Anna and her family, who have closed ranks in grief over the loss of a son. She must puzzle out the community itself and its contradictory beliefs in religion, science, and tradition. And Lib has her own sorrowful secrets, her own need for personal redemption. Donoghue deftly pairs the two stories, and as Lib uncovers the truth about Anna, she gradually owns the truth about herself."—Roxana Robinson,O, The Oprah Magazine
"Riveting.... Highly recommended."—Valerie Koehler,Literary Hub
"THE WONDER by Emma Donoghue is just that: 'a wonder' of a story about religious delusion and self-denial [that] teem[s] with drama and great moral questions.... Donoghue manages to engage larger mysteries of faith, doubt and evil without sacrificing the lyricism of her language or the suspense of her storyline."—Maureen Corrigan,Fresh Air
"Donoghue proves herself endlessly inventive.... This is the kind of book that will keep you up at nightandmake you smarter."--Julie Buntin,Cosmopolitan
"Rich hauls of historical research, deeply excavated but lightly borne.... [An] ingenious telling."--David Kipen,Wall Street Journal
"All spectacle and gothic horror and inevitably hard to put down."—Stassa Edwards,Jezebel
"Has that vivid, ripped-from-the-headlines feel that comes from an author's utter fascination with a real-world subject.... THE WONDER is deliciously gothic.... Dark and vivid, with complicated characters, this is a novel that lodges itself deep."—Steph Cha,USA Today,3/4 stars
"Fodder for endless book club debates."—Meghan O'Gieblyn,Los Angeles Review of Books
"A fine work, adept and compelling in voice, plot, and moral complexity.... Donoghue deals out the cards with real skill."—Katherine A. Powers,Boston Globe
"A locked-room mystery, set in atmospheric 19th-century Ireland and as spare, in its own way, asRoom.... A fable as lean and discomfiting as Anna's dwindling body.... Donoghue keeps us riveted to Lib's perspective throughout.... Thanks to the complexity of Donoghue's ideas, there's plenty on which to ruminate."—Amy Gentry,Chicago Tribune
"Donoghue, a writer of great vitality and generosity-one gets the sense that she would gladly have her characters over for dinner, as long as they'd agree to eat-has been drawn repeatedly to the genre of historical fiction not so much to inhabit or reinterpret the past as to try to fit together its overlooked, missing pieces.... Fiction is small solace for history's grief, but it's one way to set the record straight."—Alexandra Schwartz,New Yorker
"A blazing historical novel."—Marion Winik,Newsday
"Donoghue is a master of plot, and her prose is especially exquisite in depicting ambiguity...
Lib is a heroine the modern woman can admire."—Sarah Begley,Time Magazine
"As in "Room," Ms. Donoghue proves a shrewd observer of the parental urge to distort reality to protect children-and themselves"—Sam Sacks,The Wall Street Journal
"Donoghue's measured prose is at its best when depicting damaged and failing flesh with extraordinarily vivid economy"—Financial Times
"An excellent new novel that is as much a mystery as it is an analysis of the extent to which some people are governed by their faith."—Houston Chronicle
"A haunting page-turner, filled with Donoghue's enchanting phrasemaking—The Seattle Times
"This a completely engrossing read-you will barely be able to tear yourself away from it".—Next Avenue
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From the bestselling author of Room, a gripping and deeply moving story of progress and reaction, of evil and love.
From the bestselling author of Room, a gripping and deeply moving story of progress and reaction, of evil and love.