Audrey Niffenegger said it perfectly, in two sentences:
‘Room is a book to read in one sitting. When it’s over you look up: the world looks the same
but you are somehow different and that feeling lingers for days’
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Emma Donoghue - Room
The moment I started reading this book I fell, head first, into a little boys world. The main character, from whose perspective we read the story, is a five-year-old boy called Jack. He was born and has spent his whole life, five years, in one small room. This room is his home. Jack and his mother, Ma, are being kept locked up there, by the man who abducted his mother seven years ago.
His mother’s pain is huge, yet to protect him she has built a special life for him. His life exists out of a complicated mixture of lies and truths, this all, of course, to protect him. And since he knows no other existence he is completely content, not realizing what he is missing.
Jack’s thoughts are surprising, touching, frightening and joyful. The ability the writer, Emma Donoghue, has to pull you into the five-year-old boy’s mind is remarkable. It makes reading the book an intense and moving journey full of suspense, which you have to experience yourself to appreciate.
Aanvullende informatie
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Author:
Emma Donoghue
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Title:
Room
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Edition:
Paperback
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Price:
€12.50
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Publisher:
Picador
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Date of Publication:
2010
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Recommended by:
Ruby van der Meulen