Room

Description

An emotionally intense novel about a mother and her precocious five-year-old son who are held captive in a small shed, and their unbreakable bond and determination to escape. “utterly gripping…a heart-stopping novel” —San Francisco Chronicle

To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world. It’s where he was born, it’s where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits.

Room is home to Jack, but to Ma it’s the prison where she has been held for seven years. Through her fierce love for her son, she has created a life for him in this eleven-by-eleven-foot space. But with Jack’s curiosity building alongside her own desperation, she knows that Room cannot contain either much longer.

Room is an award-winning bestseller that became one of the most talked about and memorable novels of the decade. At once shocking, riveting, exhilarating — a story of unconquerable love in harrowing circumstances, and of the diamond-hard bond between a mother and her child.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Emma Donoghue
Published: 09/13/2010
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
ISBN: 9780316098335
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 1.20″ H x 9.30″ L x 6.20″ W

Award: 2010 Man Booker Prize Nominee – Novel
Award: 2010 Governor General’s Literary Awards Finalist – Fiction
Award: 2011 Alex Awards Winner – Adult/For Young Adults
Award: 2011 Indies Choice Book Awards Winner – Fiction
Award: 2011 ALA Notable Books Winner – Fiction
Award: 2011 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction Nominee – Fiction
Award: 2011 Young Adult Canadian Book Award Finalist – Young Adult
Award: 2013 Green Mountain Book Award Nominee – Grades 9-12
Award: 2012 Kentucky Bluegrass Award Winner – Grades 9-12
Award: 2013 Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award Nominee – Young Adult

About the Author
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) to the contemporary (Akin, 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.