by Emma Donoghue · Louise Bäckelin Förlag · tapa dura · ISBN 9789188447463
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«Miraklet» is the historical novel by Emma Donoghue, published by Louise Bäckelin Förlag in hardcover (303 pages, in Swedish).
Eleven-year-old Anna has not eaten for four months, yet she is in good health. Her religious family believes she is chosen by God and could be the first Irish saint in 500 years. The case attracts journalists and tourists; nurse Lib must watch over her. As they forge a friendship, Lib notices vague symptoms and fears that not everything is a hoax.
Miraklet is the 2017 edition of The Wonder, originally from 2016; it was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the Goodreads Choice Award for historical fiction.
For readers of historical fiction and mystery, and for book clubs.
Emma Donoghue is an Irish Canadian novelist, screenwriter, playwright and literary historian. Her 2010 novel Room was a finalist for the Booker Prize and an international best-seller. Donoghue's 1995 novel Hood won the Stonewall Book Award and Slammerkin (2000) won the Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction. She is a 2011 recipient of the Alex Awards. Room was adapted by Donoghue into a film of the same name. For this, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. In 2025, Donoghue won the coveted Alice B Readers Award given annually to living writers of published works whose careers are distinguished by consistently well-written works about lesbians.
