by Emma Donoghue · Picador · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781447276364
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«Room» is the contemporary fiction novel by Emma Donoghue, published by Picador in the Picador Classic collection in paperback (432 pages, in English).
Jack, a five-year-old boy, knows only the room where he lives with his mother, whom he calls Ma; for him it is the whole world, for her it is a prison where she has been captive for seven years. Ma decides to risk everything with an escape plan that depends on the boy's courage, in a story narrated by Jack about the mother-child bond and resilience.
Part of the Picador Classic collection, includes an introduction by John Boyne and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
Aimed at readers of contemporary fiction who appreciate child narrators and stories centered on the relationship 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.
