Room

Novel by Emma Donoghue

Blurb

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE -- nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture

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 a tale 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.

First Published

2010

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skunk

Skunk

Starkes Buch, das zeigt, wie ein Entführungsopfer sein in der Gefangenschaft geborenes Kind vor dieser Gefangenschaft schützt. Tiefsinning und anrührend...

0 Responses posted in April
gringo1980

Gringo1980

Room is about a woman who is captured and held captive against her will. Turns out, not a lot happens when you are trapped in a room all day with your son. While the premise is frightening, the book is 90% the woman talking to her child about the outside world.

0 Responses posted in February
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