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Room

✍ Scribed by Emma Donoghue


Publisher
Alfaguara
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Weight
180 KB
Category
Fiction

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✦ Synopsis


Amazon Best of the Month, September 2010: In many ways, Jack is a typical 5-year-old. He likes to read books, watch TV, and play games with his Ma. But Jack is different in a big way--he has lived his entire life in a single room, sharing the tiny space with only his mother and an unnerving nighttime visitor known as Old Nick. For Jack, Room is the only world he knows, but for Ma, it is a prison in which she has tried to craft a normal life for her son. When their insular world suddenly expands beyond the confines of their four walls, the consequences are piercing and extraordinary. Despite its profoundly disturbing premise, Emma Donoghue's Room is rife with moments of hope and beauty, and the dogged determination to live, even in the most desolate circumstances. A stunning and original novel of survival in captivity, readers who enter Room will leave staggered, as though, like Jack, they are seeing the world for the very first time. --Lynette Mong Description in Spanish: Para Jack, un niño de cinco años, la Habitacion es el mundo entero, el lugar donde nacio, donde come, juega y aprende. Por la noche, Mama lo pone a dormir en el Armario, por si viene el Viejo Nick… Para su madre, la Habitacion es el cubiculo donde lleva siete años encerrada. Con gran teson e ingenio, ha creado en ese reducido espacio una vida para su hijo, y su amor por el es lo unico que le permite soportar lo insoportable. Pero la curiosidad de uno crece a la par que la desesperacion de la otra. Solo queda urdir la huido, un plan mas arriesgado de lo que ambos puedan imaginar.

Review

Una obra de arte completamente original… Una novela poderosa, de una belleza oscura y sumamente reveladora. --MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM, autor de Las horas

Donoghue ha construido un relato que avanza con el suspense de un thriller… Dificil de abandonar e intensamente conmovedor. --The Sunday Times

Una novela memorable… Una voz unica para hablar acerca del amor y una mirada fresca y reveladora del mundo en que vivimos. --The New York Times Book Review

Donoghue ha construido un relato que avanza con el suspense de un thriller… Dificil de abandonar e intensamente conmovedor. --The Sunday Times

Una novela memorable… Una voz unica para hablar acerca del amor y una mirada fresca y reveladora del mundo en que vivimos. --The New York Times Book Review

About the Author

Emma Donoghue nacio en Dublin en 1969 y actualmente reside en la ciudad canadiense de London (Ontario). Ha escrito novelas contemporáneas e historicas, entre las que se cuenta Slammerkin (2000), que cosecho un notable exito de ventas; libros de relatos y estudios historicos. Sus obras han recibido numerosos premios y han sido elogiadas por la critica. Los derechos de traduccion de su ultima y aclamada novela, La Habitacion, han sido vendidos a veintitres paises.


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