Told from the perspective of five-year-old Jack, Emma Donoghue’s Room, is a devastating portrait of a boundless maternal love.A major film starring Brie Larson.Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.Shortlisted for the Orange Prize.Jack lives with his Ma in Room, which has a locked door and a skylight, and measures 11 feet by 11 feet. He loves watching TV, and the cartoon characters he calls friends, but he knows that nothing he sees on screen is truly real – only him, Ma and the things in Room. Until the day Ma admits that there’s a world outside . . .Told in Jack’s voice, Room is the story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible .Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-02-17
Mått:131 x 198 x 27 mm
Vikt:298 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Picador Collection
Antal sidor:432
Förlag:Pan Macmillan
ISBN:9781529077247
Utmärkelser:Short-listed for Man Booker Prize 2010 (UK)

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Born in Dublin in 1969, Emma Donoghue is an Irish emigrant twice over: she spent eight years in Cambridge doing a PhD in eighteenth-century literature before moving to London, Ontario, where she lives with her partner and their two children. She also migrates between genres, writing literary history, biography, stage and radio plays as well as fairy tales and short stories. She is best known for her novels, which range from the historical (Frog Music, Slammerkin, Life Mask, Landing, The Sealed Letter and The Wonder) to the contemporary (Stir-Fry, Hood, Landing). Her international bestseller Room was a New York Times Best Book of the Year and was a finalist for the Man Booker, Commonwealth, and Orange Prizes.

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Emma Donoghue's writing is superb alchemy, changing innocence into horror and horror into tenderness. 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.