DONOGHUE EMMA

ΤΟ ΔΩΜΑΤΙΟ
Για τον πεντάχρονο Τζακ το Δωμάτιο είναι ο κόσμος. Εκεί γεννήθηκε, εκεί τρώει, εκεί κοιμάται, εκεί παίζει και μαθαίνει μαζί με τη Μαμά του. Γι' αυτόν, το Δωμάτιο κρύβει αμέτρητα θαύματα, πλούσια και ανεξάντλητη τροφή για τη φαντασία του: ο Αυγοφίδης στο Κάτω Από το Κρεβάτι, φτιαγμένος από τσόφλια αυγών, ο φανταστικός κόσμος της Τηλεόρασης, η παρηγορητική ζεστασιά της Ντουλάπας, κάτω από τα κρεμασμένα ρούχα, εκεί όπου η Μαμά τον ασφαλίζει τα βράδια, για την περίπτωση που ο ΣαταΝίκ τούς επισκεφθεί. Το Δωμάτιο είναι σπίτι για τον Τζακ, για τη...
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(P/B) ROOM
Jack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a single, locked room. They don't have the key. Jack and Ma are prisoners. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) HAVEN
In seventh-century Ireland, a priest has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two monks with him, he travels down the Shannon in search of an isolated spot on which to found a new place of worship. Drifting out into the Atlantic, the three men find an impossibly steep, bare island inhabited by tens of thousands of birds, and claim it for God. But in such a place, far from all other humanity, what will survival mean? (From the publisher)...
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ΤΟ ΘΑΥΜΑ
Μέσα του 19ου αιώνα. Σ' ένα μικρό ιρλανδικό χωριό, ένα εντεκάχρονο κορίτσι επιβιώνει επί μήνες χωρίς φαγητό. Θαύμα; Ιατρικό φαινόμενο; Ή μήπως θρασύτατη απάτη; Μια νοσοκόμα, εκπαιδευμένη στην Κριμαία πλάι στη Φλόρενς Νάιτινγκεϊλ και περήφανη γι' αυτό, προσλαμβάνεται για να παρακολουθεί το παιδί. Περιηγητές συρρέουν για να το αγγίξουν. Ένας δημοσιογράφος φτάνει από το Δουβλίνο για να καλύψει το γεγονός. Όμως το παιδί σιγά σιγά φθίνει. Αναστατωμένη από το ενδεχόμενο του θανάτου του μικρού κοριτσιού, με μόνο της συμπαραστάτη τον δημοσιογράφο,...
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(H/B) HAVEN
In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two monks - young Trian and old Cormac - he travels down the river Shannon in search of an isolated spot on which to found a monastery. Drifting out into the Atlantic, the three men find an impossibly steep, bare island inhabited by tens of thousands of birds, and claim it for God.Their extraordinary landing spot is now known as Skellig Michael. But in such a place, far from all other humanity, what will survival me...
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(P/B) THE WONDER
A major film from the makers of Normal People and Room, starring Florence Pugh and streaming on Netflix. 'An old-school page turner with crackling intensity' Stephen King 'Powerful, compulsively readable' Irish Times Eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell 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' be...
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(P/B) THE PULL OF THE STARS
Dublin, 1918. In a country doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city centre, where expectant mothers who have come down with an unfamiliar flu are quarantined together. Into Julias regimented world step two outsiders: Doctor Kathleen Lynn, on the run from the police, and a young volunteer helper, Birdie Sweeney. In the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over the course of three days, these women change each other's lives in unexpected ways. They lose patients to this baffling ...
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(P/B) AKIN
Bestselling author of Room, Emma Donoghue returns with her new masterpiece, Akin, a brilliant tale of love, loss and family. Noah is only days away from his first trip back to Nice since he was a child when a social worker calls looking for a temporary home for Michael, his eleven-year-old great-nephew. Though he has never met the boy, he gets talked into taking him along to France. This odd couple, suffering from jet lag and culture shock, argue about everything from steak hach? to screen time, and the trip is looking like a disaster. B...
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(P/B) THE WONDER
Mid-nineteenth century Ireland is the setting for this tale centring on an English nurse sent to investigate reports of a medical miracle. Despite refusing all food, nine-year-old Anna O'Donnell appears to be thriving - leading those around her to proclaim the intervention of God. Aside from the main plot, the real fascination of this novel lies in the ideological clashes it describes. Catholicism is pitted against scepticism, shame against forgiveness, and love against indifference. These debates, and the plot itself, took me on a rol...
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(P/B) THE WONDER
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 motion before our eyes. Pitting all the seductions of fundamentalism against sense and love, it is a...
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(P/B) FROG MUSIC
San 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 unravel, changing everything and leaving one of them dead. Frog Music, inspired by true events, is an evocative novel of intrigue and murder: elegant, erotic and witty. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE WONDER
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 motion before our eyes. Pitting all the seductions of fundamentalism against sense and love, it is ...
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ΚΟΚΚΙΝΗ ΚΟΡΔΕΛΑ
Η Μαίρη ζει σαν τους παιδικούς ήρωες του Ντίκενς στο Λονδίνο του 18ου αιώνα. Η αδυναμία της για τα λούσα είναι δυσανάλογη με την κοινωνική της θέση, τόσο που για μια γυαλιστερή κόκκινη κορδέλα θα φτάσει να προσφέρει το μόνο πράγμα που της ανήκει: το κορμί της. Διωγμένη από το σπίτι της, βιασμένη από φαντάρους, βρίσκει καταφύγιο σε μια πόρνη. Εκεί μαθαίνει τα μυστικά του επαγγέλματος για να βγάλει τα λεφτά μιας έκτρωσης, που η περιγραφή της θυμίζει ταινία τρόμου, και για να ντυθεί με τα ωραία φορέματα που πάντα λαχταρούσε. Το σλάμερκιν -που...
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