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The Wonder de Emma Donoghue

The Wonder

Autor Emma Donoghue
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 mai 2017

Structura narativă este construită pe o supraveghere clinică de două săptămâni, un ceas care ticăie necruțător pentru viața unui copil. Apreciem modul în care Emma Donoghue impune o claustrofobie psihologică într-un peisaj rural aparent deschis. Lib Wright, o asistentă călită în războiul Crimeei, ajunge într-un sat irlandez pentru a demasca ceea ce comunitatea numește un miracol: Anna, o fetiță care ar trăi fără hrană. Remarcăm contrastul violent între raționalismul medical al asistentei și fervoarea religioasă a localnicilor. Tensiunea crește cu fiecare pagină, pe măsură ce foamea devine o prezență fizică, palpabilă. Ca și Room, acest roman explorează izolarea și reziliența spiritului uman, dar dintr-o perspectivă istorică și spirituală mult mai sumbră. Dacă în Room spațiul era limitat de pereți, în The Wonder barierele sunt dogmele și secretele unei comunități închise. Merită menționat că lucrarea continuă preocuparea autoarei pentru spații restrânse și relații intense sub presiune, teme vizibile și în The Pull of the Stars, unde cadrul este o secție de maternitate în timpul gripei spaniole. În The Wonder, Donoghue transformă un caz de „fasting girl” într-un thriller psihologic despre responsabilitate și adevăr.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781509818402
ISBN-10: 1509818405
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 128 x 195 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Ediția:Main Market Ed
Editura: Pan Macmillan

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Pentru cititorii care caută un roman polițist istoric cu o încărcătură emoțională devastatoare. Veți descoperi o analiză pătrunzătoare a modului în care credința poate fi transformată în armă. Este o lectură despre curajul de a vedea adevărul dincolo de miracole fabricate, oferind o experiență tensionată care interoghează limitele eticii și ale devotamentului.

Despre autor

Emma Donoghue, născută în Dublin în 1969, este o scriitoare de renume internațional, cunoscută pentru capacitatea sa de a transforma fapte istorice sau cazuri reale în narațiuni psihologice profunde. Succesul său global a fost consolidat de romanul Room, finalist al premiului Man Booker. Cu o carieră ce cuprinde ficțiune contemporană și istorică, precum Slammerkin sau The Pull of the Stars, Donoghue explorează frecvent teme legate de izolare, feminitate și legături umane forjate în condiții extreme. Locuiește în prezent în Canada, fiind și o dramaturgă apreciată.

Descriere

A chilling novel from the bestselling author of Room.

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