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.
Room is one of the most profoundly affecting books I've read in a long time. Jack moved me greatly. His voice, his story, his innocence, his love for Ma combine to create something very unusual and, I think, something very important . . .
Room deserves to reach the widest possible audience.I loved
Room. Such incredible imagination, and dazzling use of language. And with all this, an entirely credible, endearing little boy. It's unlike anything I've ever read before.The story of a mother, her son, a locked room and the outside world.
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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 ‰ÛÒ 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. Unsentimental and sometimes funny, devastating yet uplifting, Room by Emma Donoghue is a novel like no other.
Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.
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 (F
rog 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 2010 and was a finalist for the Man Booker, Commonwealth, and Orange Prizes.