Room
A Novel
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4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
An emotionally intense novel about a mother and her precocious five-year-old son who are held captive in a small shed, and their unbreakable bond and determination to escape. "utterly gripping...a heart-stopping novel" —San Francisco Chronicle
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 an award-winning bestseller that became one of the most talked about and memorable novels of the decade. 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.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Five-year-old Jack knows nothing beyond the small garden shed he shares with his “Ma,” who is determined to cultivate her child’s imagination and intelligence even as she shields him from the terrifying truths of their imprisonment. Emma Donoghue's spot-on dialogue and inspired plot choices make Jack and Ma—and their heartbreakingly beautiful relationship—unforgettable. Told entirely from Jack's perspective, Room is a hugely original thriller that inspired a powerful movie starring Brie Larson. Clear your schedule before you start this fast-paced, atmospheric, and supremely riveting book.
Customer Reviews
Page turner!
This has become my new favorite book, and Emma Donoghue my new favorite author. Room takes you into another world, and you never quite escape. The characters stay with you, even after you're finished reading. Room makes you look at and appreciate the things around you in a whole new way.
Must Read
It has everything a good book needs. It is really strange in the way that it is told from a child’s perspective, but still really awesome.
Creatively Painful
Emma’s work is the perfect blend of a heart wrenching story with commentary on the media’s predatory gaze and hunger for optimism in miserable situations that should never happen to anyone. She has truly mastered the limited perspective of a child while keeping their limitless imagination that remains within and outside of Room contrasting Ma’s heartbreaking struggle to keep herself in tact while raising a child who innocently and unknowingly dismisses and degrades her life she previously had and desperately tries to cling to even after 6 years of captivity. Amazing work.