Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. Emma Donoghue I recommend it. Für das optimale Einkaufserlebnis empfehlen wir Ihnen, uns durch Klick auf Emotional, at times disturbing, and tremendously thought-provoking, Emotional, at times disturbing, and tremendously thought-provoking, 4.5 When Libby a nurse trained by Florence Nightingale, fought alongside of her in the Crimea, contracts to work with a family in Ireland, she has no idea what she is letting herself in for. A great plot and well written as you would expect from ... The author is brilliant in eliciting feelings of the reader through her writing. I could not fail to be impressed by the meticulous research and understanding of the tensions within recently post famine and intensely superstitious catholic mid Ireland, which just began to hold me on sufficiently to reading on past the first half of the book as I began to recognise the author's genuinely empathetic approach to each of her characters. Had it not been a Reading Group book, I may not have persevered but I'm glad that I did. The model takes into account factors including the age of a rating, whether the ratings are from verified purchasers, and factors that establish reviewer trustworthiness.Sorry, we failed to record your vote. You quickly get caught up in trying to determine this young girl’s situation. Emma Donoghue Renate Bergmann Eleven year old, Anne, is said to have not eaten any solid food for over four months and Lib's job will be to observe her for two weeks, to see if the claims are true. Wenn Sie diese Felder durch einen Klick aktivieren, werden Informationen an Facebook, Twitter oder Google in die USA übertragen und unter Umständen auch dort gespeichert. The local Doctor McBrearty residing in the tiny town of Athlone, Ireland knows the family well and is unhappy with the newspapers reports not believing the story by implying it is nothing more than a hoax. … With Donoghue’s readable prose and lightness of touch, we find ourselves both pausing for thought and racing forward to see what will become of Anna.’ - Irish IndependentEmma Donoghue interviewed by Alan Neal for CBC’s All in a Day, 28 Sept 2016,Eliza Haughton-Shaw, 'Interview: Emma Donoghue on writing hunger', Andrea O'Reilly, 'Redemptive Mothering: Reclamation, Absolution and Deliverance in Emma Donoghue's Yi-Peng Lai, ‘History, Hunger, and the Construction of an Irish Homeland: Emma Donoghue’s Libe García Zarranz, ‘Carving, Cutting, Fasting: Cassils and Emma Donoghue’s Bodily Wonders’, paper delivered at Canada 150 conference, University College Dublin, 2017Lin Elinor Pettersson, "Neo-Victorian Incest Trauma and the Fasting Body in Emma Donoghue’s Ruth Scurr, 'The Dreams and the Demons of Fasting,' Stephen King, ‘Stephen King Reviews Emma Donoghue’s Latest Novel,’ Sarah Lyall, ‘In ‘The Wonder,’ the Morality of Letting a Child Fast,’ Alexandra Schwartz, ’Emma Donoghue’s Art of Starvation,’ Maureen Corrigan, ‘The Wonder’: From the author of ‘Room,’ another tight, intense drama,’ I enjoyed the twists and turns at end but was sorry that I had too wait so long for them Dragged out with the same repetitive monologue page after page. What she finds is an insular religious community that is still recovering from a devastating famine some years previous. Emma Donoghue is an Irish-Canadian playwright, literary historian, novelist, and screenwriter. I am not sure that I have a great way to explain it other than it is a “feeling” I have.The Wonder, by Emma Donoghue is a 2016 Little, Brown and Company publication. + No Import Fees Deposit & $10.98 Shipping to Turkey