FICHE PRODUIT
THE WONDER
15,00€
Auteur(s)
Emma Donoghue
Éditeur(s)
Picador
Genre
Littérature contemporaine / Contemporary
DISPONIBILITE
Disponible (En stock)
Date de parution
18/05/2017
Format
196.00 x 131.00 mm
Support
Broch?
EAN
9781509818402
Resumé
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.
