6/4/2023 0 Comments Emma o donoghue books![]() ![]() Emma Donoghue's latest novel,Room, is narrated by a 5-year-old boy so real you could swear he was sitting right beside you. Henry James, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, and, more recently, Jean Stafford and Eric Kraft come to mind, and after that one gropes for names. Only a handful of authors have ever known how to get inside the mind of a child and then get what they know on paper. ![]() 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. But with Jack's curiosity building alongside her own desperation, she knows that Room cannot contain either much longer. Through her fierce love for her son, she has created a life for him in this eleven-by-eleven-foot space. ![]() ![]() Room is home to Jack, but to Ma it's the prison where she has been held for seven years. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits. It's where he was born, it's where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world. Held captive for years in a small shed, a woman and her precocious young son finally gain their freedom, and the boy experiences the outside world for the first time. The award-winning bestseller that became one of the most talked about and memorable novels of the decade, Room is "utterly gripping.a heart-stopping novel" ( San Francisco Chronicle ). ![]()
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