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Es ist sein Geburtstag und Jack findet es aufregend fünf zu werden. Er lebt mit seiner Mutter im "Zimmer". Das "Zimmer" hat eine abgeschlossene Tür, ein Oberlicht und misst vier mal vier Meter. Er liebt es fernzusehen, denn da sieht er seine "Freunde", die Cartoonfiguren. Aber er weiß, dass die Dinge hinter der Mattscheibe nicht echt sind - echt sind nur Ma, er und die Dinge im Zimmer. Bis der Tag kommt, an dem Ma zugibt, dass es eine Welt da draußen gibt...
Lustig, niederschmetternd und erhebend zugleich - "Room" ist ein Roman wie kein anderer.

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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize

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A major film starring Brie Larson, winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Best Actress BAFTA
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Orange Prize and a Richard and Judy Book Club selection.

Jack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a single, locked room. They don´t have the key.

Jack and Ma are prisoners.

Room by Emma Donoghue is an extraordinarily powerful story of a mother and child kept in isolation, and the desire for, and price of, freedom.

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Emma Donoghue´s writing is superb alchemy, changing innocence into horror and horror into tenderness. 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 Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler´s Wife

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Donoghue, Emma
Born in 1969, Emma Donoghue is an Irish writer who spent eight years in England before moving to Canada. Her fiction includes Slammerkin, Life Mask and Touchy Subjects. Her 2010 novel, Room, was an internationally award-winning bestseller and was shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange Prizes. Emma´s screenplay for Room´s multi-award-winning film adaptation has earned her an Oscar nomination.

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