Room

To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it's where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. 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 is the prison where Old Nick has held her captive for seven years. Th...

To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it's where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. 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 is the prison where Old Nick has held her captive for seven years. Through determination, ingenuity, and fierce motherly love, Ma has created a life for Jack. But she knows it's not enough...not for her or for him. She devises a bold escape plan, one that relies on her young son's bravery and a lot of luck. What she does not realize is just how unprepared she is for the plan to actually work.

Told entirely in the language of the energetic, pragmatic five-year-old Jack, ROOM is a celebration of resilience and the limitless bond between parent and child, a brilliantly executed novel about what it means to journey from one world to another.

爱玛·多诺霍（Emma Donoghue），1969年10月出生于都柏林，父亲是文学评论家。少年时光大多在都柏林的一家天主教女子修道院学校度过，唯有十岁时在纽约的一年生活异常精彩。1990年获得都柏林大学学院英语以及法语一等荣誉学位（最高等级），但却拙于开口说法语。随后 移居英格兰，在剑桥获得博士学位（论18世纪虚构作品中的男女友谊）。23岁时写作为生，自从做了一个月的旅店服务员而被解雇后，便以不曾拥有一份靠谱工作而深觉幸运。此后经年往来于英国、爱尔兰以及加拿大，1998年定居于加拿大安大略省的伦敦市，如今与伴侣Chris Roulston以及幼子Finn（7岁）、幼女Una（3岁）居住在一起。