Editorial Picador
Fecha de edición septiembre 2016 · Edición nº 1
Idioma inglés
EAN 9781509818396
256 páginas
Libro
encuadernado en tapa blanda
Dimensiones 153 mm x 234 mm
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, 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.
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