by Emma Donoghue · Macmillan Publishers Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330533867
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«Room» is the novel by Emma Donoghue, published by Macmillan Publishers Ltd in paperback (402 pages, in English).
The novel is narrated from the voice of Jack, a five-year-old boy who lives with his mother in a locked room, which they call Room. Jack believes that only he, his mother, and the objects in that room exist, and that what television shows is not real; until his mother confesses to him that there is another world outside.
It was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010 and the Orange Prize for Fiction 2011, and won the TV Book Club 2011.
For readers of contemporary fiction and book clubs, especially those who value a child's narrative voice in a story with 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.
