by Emma Donoghue · Picador · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781529077247
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«Room» is the psychological novel by Emma Donoghue, published by Picador in paperback (407 pages, in English).
Jack, a five-year-old boy, lives with his mother in a room that for him is the whole world and for her, the cell where she has been held captive for seven years. Through his voice, the novel portrays maternal love and the risky escape plan that mother and son devise together.
It is volume 10 of the Picador Collection, a series from the publisher Picador celebrating its fiftieth anniversary.
A read for book clubs and general readers interested in contemporary novels with a child narrative voice.
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.
