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Room : a Novel by Donoghue, Emma is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Room : a Novel about?

Told from the perspective of five-year-old Jack, Emma Donoghue’s profoundly affecting novel is a devastating portrait of a boundless maternal love.The novel opens as Jack turns five. Jack lives with his Ma in Room. Room has a single locked door and a skylight, and it measures ten feet by ten feet. Jack loves watching TV but he knows that nothing he sees on the screen is truly real - only him, Ma and the things in Room. Until the day Ma admits there is another world outside."Jack’s voice is one of the pure triumphs of the novel: in him, she has invented a child narrator who is one of the most engaging in years — his voice so pervasive I could hear him chatting away during the day when I wasn’t reading the book. Donoghue rearranges language to evoke the sweetness of a child’s learning without making him coy or overly darling; Jack is lovable simply because he is lovable ... There’s a lot to manage — the external, vivid, social world is a huge and gratifying resource here, and Jack’s eyes remake the familiar. It is invigorating, watching him learn, and the way Donoghue reveals the consequences of Room through her attention to detail is tremendous." - Aimee Bender, The New York Times

Who reads Room : a Novel?

Author

Donoghue, Emma

Publisher

Little, Brown and Company

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780316125086

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Thriller, Fiction

Rating

4.3 / 5 (31,275 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14