Room is a 2010 novel by Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue. The story is told from the perspective of a five-year-old boy, Jack, who is being held captive in a small room along with his mother. Donoghue conceived the story after hearing about five-year-old Felix in the Fritzl case.
The novel was longlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize and won the 2011 Commonwealth Writers' Prize regional prize (Caribbean and Canada). It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2010, and was shortlisted for the 2010 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the 2010 Governor General's Awards.
Genres
- family life
- sexual assault
- rape
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- New York Times bestseller
- Boys
- Kidnapping
- Escapes
- Psychopaths
- Mother and child
- Fiction
- Mother-child relationship
- Authors, Canadian (English)
- Mother and child - Fiction
- Englisch
- Roman
- Boys - Fiction
- Fiction, psychological
- Mother and child, fiction
- Psychological fiction
- New York Times reviewed
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- Suspense fiction
- Madre e hijo
- Secuestro
- Evasiones
- Psicópatas
- Muchachos
- Ficción
- Gefangenschaft
- Mutter
- Lebensbewaltigung
- Entfuhrung
- Flucht
- Junge
- Junge <5 Jahre>
- literary fiction
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