It’s Jack’s birthday, and he’s excited about turning five. Jack lives with his Ma in a room, which has a locked door and a skylight, and measures 12 feet by 12 feet. He loves watching TV, and the cartoon characters he calls friends, but he knows that nothing he sees on screen is truly real – only him, Ma and the things in room. Until the day Ma admits that there’s a world outside…Told in Jack’s voice, «Room» is the story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible. Unsentimental and sometimes funny, devastating yet uplifting, «Room» is a novel like no other. ‘Emma Donoghue’s writing is superb alchemy, changing innocence into horror and horror into tenderness. «Room» is a book to read in one sitting. When it’s over you look up: the world looks the same but you are somehow different and that feeling lingers for days’ – Audrey Niffenegger, author of «The Time Traveller’s Wife» and «Her Fearful Symmetry».
