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.
Room is 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.
關於作者:
Born in Dublin in 1969, 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. Her international bestseller Room was a
New York Times Best Book of 2010 and was a finalist for the
Man Booker, Commonwealth, and Orange Prizes. For more information,
visit www.emmadonoghue.com.