by Emma Donoghue · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420406619
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«La habitación» is the suspense and thriller novel by Emma Donoghue, published by Alfaguara in paperback (392 pages, in Spanish).
Jack, a five-year-old boy, lives locked up with his mother in a single room, the only world he knows. His mother has been kidnapped for seven years and has created a protected life for him within that confined space, until the need to escape forces them to devise a risky plan. A story narrated from Jack's childish voice, combining survival, maternal love and suspense.
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the novel was adapted into a movie in 2015. The Spanish translation is by Eugenia Vázquez Nacarino.
Recommended for readers of contemporary fiction and psychological thrillers, as well as for book clubs and those seeking intense stories about the bond between mother and son.
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.
