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Zusatztext Emma Donoghue follows her bestseller Room with Frog Music . Set during a smallpox epidemic in San Francisco in 1876 and based on a true story! a burlesque dancer sets out to bring her friend's murderer to justice. Informationen zum Autor Born in Dublin in 1969, and now living in Canada, Emma Donoghue writes fiction (novels and short stories, contemporary and historical including The Pull of the Stars ), as well as drama for screen and stage. Room , was a New York Times Best Book of 2010 and a finalist for the Man Booker, Commonwealth, and Orange Prizes, selling between two and three million copies in forty languages. Donoghue was nominated for an Academy Award for her 2015 adaptation starring Brie Larson. She co-wrote the screenplay for the film of her novel The Wonder , starring Florence Pugh and distributed by Netflix. Klappentext Author of the multi-million-copy bestseller Room 'Endlessly inventive . . . This will keep you up at night' Cosmopolitan 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. Inspired by a true unsolved crime, Frog Music is a dark and compelling story of intrigue and murder. 'This wild ride of a novel shakes, rattles and rolls its way along . . . for its irresistible readability, the only word is formidable ' Irish Times 'Showstopping . . . a mind-bendingly original crime novel . . . a dazzling historical mystery' San Francisco Chronicle Frog Music is a wonderfully evocative novel of intrigue and murder from Emma Donoghue, the author of the international bestseller Room , an emotive and powerful novel that was shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange Prizes. Zusammenfassung &i>Frog Music&/i> is a wonderfully evocative novel of intrigue and murder from Emma Donoghue! the author of the international bestseller &i>Room&/i>! an emotive and powerful novel that was shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange Prizes. ...
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'Time and again, Emma Donoghue writes books that are unlike anything I have ever seen before.' Ann Patchett
