by Emma Donoghue · 11x17 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789720775139
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«O Quarto de Jack» is the novel by Emma Donoghue, published by 11x17 in 2014 in paperback (405 pages, in Portuguese).
Five-year-old Jack believes the room where he lives with his mother is the whole world: there they eat, play and learn. What he doesn't know is that this room is the prison where she has been held for years. The narrative, seen through Jack, shows the bond between mother and son and their survival in extreme confinement.
Originally published in English as Room (2010), the 2014 Portuguese edition was translated by Cristina Correia. The cover indicates it was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010.
For readers of literary fiction and book clubs, as well as for those seeking narratives with a child's voice and psychological tension.
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.
