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Irlanda, 1840. Anna O'Donnell, una niña de once años, hija de una humilde familia de granjeros de una zona poco fértil y empobrecida, lleva cuatro meses sin comer, desde el día de su primera comunión. Anna es inteligente, muy devota, discreta. En un ambiente extremadamente católico, todos creen que es una santa. El caso ha llegado a la prensa, y recibe visitas a diario, que dejan limosnas y regalos a la familia. Una joven enfermera, es contrat...

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Impossible to put down' Stephen KingLib Wright, a young English nurse, arrives in an impoverished Irish village on a strange mission. Eleven-year-old Anna O’Donnell is said to have eaten nothing for months but appears to be thriving miraculously. Lib’s job is simple: to watch the girl and uncover the truth. An educated sceptic, Lib expects to expose the fast as a hoax right away. But as she gets to know the girl she becomes more and more unsur...

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Author of the multi-million-copy bestseller Room'Endlessly inventive . . . This will keep you up at night' CosmopolitanSan Francisco, 1876: a stifling heat wave and smallpox epidemic have engulfed the city.Deep in the streets of Chinatown live three former stars of the Parisian circus: Blanche, now an exotic dancer at the House of Mirrors, her lover Arthur and his companion Ernest.When an eccentric outsider joins their little circle, secrets u...

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With the turn of each page, the characters that roam across these pages go astray. They are emigrants, runaways, drifters, gold miners and counterfeiters, attorneys and slaves. They cross borders of race, law, sex, and sanity. They travel for love or money, under duress or incognito. This fascinating collection from Emma Donoghue, author of the internationally bestselling Room, is a sequence of fourteen fact-inspired fictions about travels to,...

Für Jack ist Raum die ganze Welt. Dort essen, spielen und schlafen er und seine Ma. Jack liebt es fernzusehen, denn da sieht er seine »Freunde«, die Cartoonfiguren. Aber er weiß, dass die Dinge hinter der Mattscheibe nicht echt sind - echt sind nur Ma, er und die Dinge in Raum. Bis der Tag kommt, an dem Ma ihm erklärt, dass es noch eine Welt da draußen gibt und dass sie versuchen müssen, aus Raum zu fliehen ...

Thirteen tales are unspun from the deeply familiar, and woven anew into a collection of fairy tales that wind back through time. Acclaimed Irish author Emma Donoghue reveals heroines young and old in unexpected alliances--sometimes treacherous, sometimes erotic, but always courageous. Told with luminous voices that shimmer with sensuality and truth, these age-old characters shed their antiquated cloaks to travel a seductive new landscape, radi...

Frog Music, inspired by true events, is an evocative novel of intrigue and murder: elegant, erotic and witty.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE'Room is a book to read in one sitting. When it's over you look up: the world looks the same but you are somehow different and that feeling lingers for days' Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's WifeJack is five. He lives in a single, locked room with his Ma.'Startlingly original and moving . . . as utterly compelling as The Lovely Bones' Scotsman 'A triumph' Dai...

The story of a mother, her son, a locked room and the outside world. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Filmed as a major motion picture, directed by Lenny Abrahamson.

Today I'm five. I was four last night going to sleep in Wardrobe, but when I wake up in Bed in the dark I'm changed to five, abracadabra.Jack lives with his Ma in Room. Room has a single locked door and a skylight, and it measures eleven feet by eleven feet. Jack loves watching TV but he knows that nothing he sees on the screen is truly real - only him, Ma and the things in Room. Until the day Ma admits there is a world outside.Devastating yet...

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 mo...

Twenty-nine stories from writers both new and established, edited by the bestselling author of Room! Love Alters is an exciting anthology featuring both internationally renowned authors as well as newer authors from all across the English-speaking world. Countries represented here include England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, South Africa, America, Canada, Jamaica, Trinidad, Australia, and New Zealand. Compiled not because the authors identify as...

From the author of Slammerkin, a gripping historical novel about three famous Londoners - an artist, an actress and an aristocrat - based on a true scandal of 18th century London.

To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up, it's where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it is the prison where Old Nick has held her captive for seven years. Through determination, ingenuity, and fierce motherly love, Ma has crea...

Paperback edition of the Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel featuring a boy who grows up with his mother in a single room. '"Room" is that rarest of entities, an entirely original work of art.' Michael Cunningham 'One of the most profoundly affecting books I've read in a long time' John Boyne '"Room" is a book to read in one sitting.' Audrey Niffenegger

Jack ist fünf Jahre alt und lebt mit seiner Mutter im Room. Dieser eine Raum ist ihre ganze Welt: Sie verlassen ihn nie und nur ein Mensch kommt sie dort besuchen. Trotz dieser qualvollen Existenz erleben die beiden in ihrem Gefängnis manchmal Momente des Glücks und sogar ein Gefühl der Freiheit. Doch diese Momente sind nur Ausnahmen und die beiden müssen einen Ausweg aus ihrer Zelle finden. Einen Ausweg aus diesem menschenunwürdigen Leben.

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