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Awards
Shortlisted for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2010.Shortlisted for Galaxy National Book Award: International Author of the Year 2010.
Shortlisted for Galaxy National Book Awards: International Author of the Year 2010.
Shortlisted for Orange Prize for Fiction 2011.
Shortlisted for Galaxy National Book Awards: Book of the Year 2010.
Shortlisted for Galaxy National Book Awards: Galaxy Book of the Year 2010.
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Description
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.
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I just finished listening to the book Room on audio-book format. I am extremely happy that I choose the audiobook format over the print format because I honestly would not have finished it if I had had to read the story in print. All I have to say is that there was too much reality in the book. While the story was very compelling and the characters interesting as well as well developed because I work with children it was a very difficult story for me to enjoy and/or classify as simply fiction. ... more
lindsey.mountford commented:
It's brilliant - it's told from the point of view of the 5 year-old boy locked in the room with his mum, what makes it a great read is that it's not gruesome and painful to read, but still very suspenseful. It's one of those books you HAVE to finish, I couldn't put it down.
4 months ago...
Hi guys, and I have absolutely positively no idea what to read!! If you want to help me out then PLEASE comment and give me a good title. I wanted to read ROOM by Emma Donoghue but I literally went to every store in town that sold books and nobody had it, I even went to the library to see if they had it and they said they did not even own the book!!!
live to read commented:
Sarah Dessen look her up . or have you read her books ? along for the ride ab/fab. let me know what u think that is if u check her out hope I helped.
6 months ago...
if you are in my book club Everything in the Library then please go there now there is an important message waiting for u!!!
6 months ago...
devernxo commented:
I've just started reading it, and i can't say i'm enjoying it either. I'm slightly disturbed by it, like while they're doing it, he's counting the creaks. Little things like that are just making me shiver. I'm used to reading books like these but this is just putting e in a very strange place, And the story behind it just reminds me of like Natascha Kampush and things like Elizabeth Fritzel. :S Its really just, traumatic and sad.
10 months ago...
I have just finished ROOM and at first I thought I wouldn't enjoy it as it was completely different to the usual books I read, however it was AWESOME, a truly amazing story that tugs at your heart, mind and soul. The book is written through the eyes of a 5 year old wee boy who is sweet and innocent and has no idea of the big bad world outside. He is locked in a small world that is dominated by a routine that can only take place in a small room with his mum and the tv. Dora the Explorer plays a h... more
Book Crazy commented:
omg i saw this book on tv book club i added it to my buying books list i really want to read it. The boy in the book is trapped in a world so different from the outside and as soon as him and his mother escape its a whole new adventure which in truth seems scarier to him beacause the prison he called home is so different. the conditions arent that bad because there is a t.v his mother explains to him that there is an outside, but to him it looks like a magical adventure kinda like when i was younger and thought that fairies were magical .
11 months ago...
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shequilabpk commented:
I agree this book was great on audio, the person who did the voices was spot on. And I too would have found this to be to difficult to just read, my imagination would have gone too far.
1 month ago...