Room: A Novel
Autor Emma Donoghue Michal Friedman, Ellen Archer, Robert Petkoff, Suzanne Torenen Limba Engleză CD-Audio – 29 sep 2015
Held
captive
for
years
in
a
small
shed,
a
woman
and
her
precocious
young
son
finally
gain
their
freedom,
and
the
boy
experiences
the
outside
world
for
the
first
time.
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.
Roomis a tale 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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781478936749
ISBN-10: 1478936746
Dimensiuni: 133 x 146 x 41 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: HACHETTE AUDIO
Colecția Little, Brown & Company
ISBN-10: 1478936746
Dimensiuni: 133 x 146 x 41 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: HACHETTE AUDIO
Colecția Little, Brown & Company
Notă biografică
Born
in
Dublin,
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
(Slammerkin,Life
Mask,Landing,The
Sealed
Letter)
to
the
contemporary
(Stir-Fry,Hood,Landing).
Recenzii
"A
riveting,
powerful
novel....Donoghue's
inventive
storytelling
is
flawless
and
absorbing.
She
has
a
fantastic
ability
to
build
tension
in
scenes
where
most
of
the
action
takes
place
in
the
12-by-12
room
where
her
central
characters
reside.
Her
writing
has
pulse-pounding
sequences
that
cause
the
reader's
eyes
to
race
over
the
pages
to
find
out
what
happens
next....Roomis
likely
to
haunt
readers
for
days,
if
not
longer.
It
is,
hands
down,
one
of
the
best
books
of
the
year."—Liz
Raftery,Boston
Globe
"Remarkable....Jack's voice is one of the pure triumphs of the novel: in him, she has invented a child narrator who is one of the most engaging in years - his voice so pervasive I could hear him chatting away during the day when I wasn't reading the book....This is a truly memorable novel, one that can be read through myriad lenses - psychological, sociological, political. It presents an utterly unique way to talk about love, all the while giving us a fresh, expansive eye on the world in which we live."—Aimee Bender,New York Times Book Review
"Only a handful of authors have ever known how to get inside the mind of a child and then get what they know on paper. Henry James, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, and, more recently, Jean Stafford and Eric Kraft come to mind, and after that one gropes for names. But now they have company. Emma Donoghue's latest novel,Room, is narrated by a 5-year-old boy so real you could swear he was sitting right beside you.... Room is so beautifully contrived that it never once seems contrived. But be warned: once you enter, you'll be Donoghue's willing prisoner right down to the last page."—Malcolm Jones, Newsweek
"I lovedRoom. Such incredible imagination, and dazzling use of language. And with all this, an entirely credible, endearing little boy. It's unlike anything I've ever read before."—Anita Shreve, author of The Pilot's Wife and A Change in Altitude
"A novel so disturbing that we defy you to stop thinking about it, days later."—Sara Nelson,O Magazine
"Riveting....Such a story, such a mother!....[Donoghue] gracefully distills what it means to be a mother--and what it's like for a child whose entire world measures just 11 x 11."—Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
"Roomis that rarest of entities, an entirely original work of art. I mean it as the highest possible praise when I tell you that I can't compare it to any other book. Suffice to say that it's potent, darkly beautiful, and revelatory."—Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours and By Nightfall
"One of the most affecting and subtly profound novels of the year."—Ron Charles,Washington Post
"Artfully empathetic....Sophisticated in outlook and execution....Donoghue makes the gusty and difficult choice to keep the book anchored somewhere inside Jack's head.... [It] never loses track of this boy's utterly plausible, vividly described thought processes."—Janet Maslin, The New York Times
"Utterly gripping....Roomis right up there with Alice Sebold'sThe Lovely Bonesand Jacquelyn Michard'sThe Deep End of the Ocean."—Heller McAlpin,San Francisco Chronicle
"Emma Donoghue's writing is superb alchemy, changing innocence into horror and horror into tenderness.Roomis 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 Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry
"Remarkable....Jack's voice is one of the pure triumphs of the novel: in him, she has invented a child narrator who is one of the most engaging in years - his voice so pervasive I could hear him chatting away during the day when I wasn't reading the book....This is a truly memorable novel, one that can be read through myriad lenses - psychological, sociological, political. It presents an utterly unique way to talk about love, all the while giving us a fresh, expansive eye on the world in which we live."—Aimee Bender,New York Times Book Review
"Only a handful of authors have ever known how to get inside the mind of a child and then get what they know on paper. Henry James, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, and, more recently, Jean Stafford and Eric Kraft come to mind, and after that one gropes for names. But now they have company. Emma Donoghue's latest novel,Room, is narrated by a 5-year-old boy so real you could swear he was sitting right beside you.... Room is so beautifully contrived that it never once seems contrived. But be warned: once you enter, you'll be Donoghue's willing prisoner right down to the last page."—Malcolm Jones, Newsweek
"I lovedRoom. Such incredible imagination, and dazzling use of language. And with all this, an entirely credible, endearing little boy. It's unlike anything I've ever read before."—Anita Shreve, author of The Pilot's Wife and A Change in Altitude
"A novel so disturbing that we defy you to stop thinking about it, days later."—Sara Nelson,O Magazine
"Riveting....Such a story, such a mother!....[Donoghue] gracefully distills what it means to be a mother--and what it's like for a child whose entire world measures just 11 x 11."—Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
"Roomis that rarest of entities, an entirely original work of art. I mean it as the highest possible praise when I tell you that I can't compare it to any other book. Suffice to say that it's potent, darkly beautiful, and revelatory."—Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours and By Nightfall
"One of the most affecting and subtly profound novels of the year."—Ron Charles,Washington Post
"Artfully empathetic....Sophisticated in outlook and execution....Donoghue makes the gusty and difficult choice to keep the book anchored somewhere inside Jack's head.... [It] never loses track of this boy's utterly plausible, vividly described thought processes."—Janet Maslin, The New York Times
"Utterly gripping....Roomis right up there with Alice Sebold'sThe Lovely Bonesand Jacquelyn Michard'sThe Deep End of the Ocean."—Heller McAlpin,San Francisco Chronicle
"Emma Donoghue's writing is superb alchemy, changing innocence into horror and horror into tenderness.Roomis 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 Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry