by Rachel Kushner · Scribner · tapa dura · ISBN 9781476756554
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«The Mars Room» is the novel by Rachel Kushner, published by Scribner in hardback (338 pages, in English).
In 2003, Romy Hall begins two life sentences at Stanville prison in California's Central Valley. The novel contrasts life in the penitentiary with the San Francisco of her youth and the memory of her son Jackson, and portrays everyday violence, the survival of the inmates and a critique of the American penal system.
Finalist for the Man Booker Prize, winner of the California Book Award and the Prix Médicis étranger.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction interested in prison narrative and social critique.
Rachel Kushner is an American writer, known for her novels Telex from Cuba (2008), The Flamethrowers (2013), The Mars Room (2018), and Creation Lake (2024).
