by Emma Donoghue · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782234064980
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«Room» is the novel by Emma Donoghue, published by Stock in paperback, in French.
Jack is five years old and lives shut in with his mother in a single room, the only world he knows. His mother protects him from the man who visits them and tries to make their life seem normal, until she decides to risk everything so Jack can discover the outside.
Original in English (2010); French translation by Virginie Buhl. Finalist for the Booker Prize 2010 and the Orange Prize 2011; winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Caribbean and Canada).
Recommended for book clubs and for those who enjoy contemporary fiction, psychological drama and thriller.
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.
