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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I guess there's nothing wrong with the writing here but oh boy what a gloomy, awful book. I read Room and really liked it despite the subject matter so I gave this a try and really shouldn't have. I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore but I didn't like the way the religion was portrayed here and I found the behavior of most Catholics in the book absolutely absurd. I can't believe anybody would act they way they did in this situation. And then the twist about why Anna was doing what she did. OMG. Awful. And the reaction of the adults in her life to the news disgusting and depressing. Realistic at that time? Maybe? But still awful. I am sad that I wasted hours of my life on such an awful and depressing story.
Historical fiction can give us rare insight into lives we might never have imagined, beliefs we could not otherwise have understood. The believability is what engages us, and this requires that a story retain some of the mysterious quality of real life: the inexplicable suffering, the ineffability. The Wonder wanders away from this and into the realm of happy-ever-after. In this it is not so wondrous after all. After making my way through several recent novels written in tiresome hey-look-at-me prose (Emma Cline’s “The Girls” comes to mind), “The Wonder” arrived as a welcome relief. Donoghue’s prose is as sturdy and serviceable as a good pair of brogans, but never nondescript...After making my way through several recent novels written in tiresome hey-look-at-me prose (Emma Cline’s “The Girls” comes to mind), “The Wonder” arrived as a welcome relief. Donoghue’s prose is as sturdy and serviceable as a good pair of brogans, but never nondescript..Even less palatable is the distracting romance Donoghue loads onto the second half of her tale..These are flaws, but not fatal ones. For the most part, “The Wonder” is a fine, fact-based historical novel, an old-school page turner (I use the phrase without shame). Emma Donoghue leaves little to Wonder about in the plot of her latest novel..Clever and seductive as its premise is, the novel is ultimately marred by the explanatory overwriting that has sometimes affected Donoghue’s work in the past. Donoghue’s prolificacy extends not just to books (she’s written nearly 20) but to the page: cudgel-like repetition is too often used as a means of emphasis. That, combined with too many ponderous nudges and winks, means there’s little we don’t see coming from early on. Plot-wise, there’s little to wonder about in The Wonder. Part mystery, part supernatural thriller, part meditation on religious fundamentalism, Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue’s The Wonder serves questions in triplicate about this very matter, through the mind and body of an 11-year-old Catholic girl who does not eat and yet continues to live.....The Wonder rides high on the acclaim of Room – which explored the lives of Jack and his mother as they lived in captivity in a shed belonging to the man who raped and kidnapped her as a teenager – and shares in its many themes. In Room, the pair lives in a claustrophobic physical space, but also a spiritual one that at times makes it a difficult read..The Wonder rides high on the acclaim of Room – which explored the lives of Jack and his mother as they lived in captivity in a shed belonging to the man who raped and kidnapped her as a teenager – and shares in its many themes. In Room, the pair lives in a claustrophobic physical space, but also a spiritual one that at times makes it a difficult read Tiene la adaptaciónPremiosDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
Irlanda, 1840. Anna O'Donnell, una niña de once años, lleva, supuestamente, cuatro meses sin comer. Todos la creen una santa, y recibe visitas a diario. Elizabeth Lib Wright, una joven enfermera, es contratada para vigilarla y otorgar credibilidad al prodigio. Convencida de que se trata de un engaño, Lib se econtrará con que la respuesta no es sencilla ni la que esperaba. La autora de "La habitación" vuelve a ofrecernos una novela brillante, hipnótica y envolvente, que se lee con el corazón en un puño.
Tourists flock to the cabin of Anna O'Donnell, an Irish child who is said to be living without food. Lib Wright, a veteran of Florence Nightingale's Crimean campaign-- and a skeptic-- is hired to keep watch over the girl. As Anna's life ebbs away, Lib finds herself responsible not just for the care of a child but for that child's very survival. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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But is it a miracle, or is it hoax? To substantiate the claims, men from the town choose two women to keep watch over Anna 24 hours a day for 2 weeks to see if she is taking in any food, and to monitor her health. One woman is a local nun, the other -- Lib Wright -- a nurse from England who worked alongside Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War.
Wright arrives to a country so different from her own she feels as though she has traveled back in time. Superstition and religious fervor override reason. Is seeing believing? And why won't those around her see what is right in front of their eyes?
Written in a style that is both atmospheric and filled with tension, Donoghue builds characters and weaves a narrative that will immerse readers in the story and keep them turning pages until the end. In short, "The Wonder" is a wonder.
4.5 stars
Thank you to NetGalley and Little, Brown and Company for a galley of this book in exchange for an honest review. ( )