Room: A Novel - Couverture souple

Donoghue, Emma

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0316098329 ISBN 13 : 9780316098328

Editeur : Little, Brown Paperbacks, 2011

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Born in Dublin in 1969, Emma Donoghue is an Irish emigrant twice over: she spent eight years in Cambridge doing a PhD in eighteenth-century literature before moving to London, Ontario, where she lives with her partner and their two children. She also migrates between genres, writing literary history, biography, stage and radio plays as well as fairy tales and short stories.

She is best known for her novels, which range from the historical (Frog Music, Slammerkin, Life Mask, Landing, The Sealed Letter) to the contemporary (Akin, Stir-Fry, Hood, Landing). Her international bestseller Room was a New York Times Best Book of 2010 and was a finalist for the Man Booker, Commonwealth, and Orange Prizes.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Little, Brown Paperbacks
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0316098329
• ISBN 13: 9780316098328
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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