Room
#1328 of 8,085 books · #396 in Crime & Thriller
Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction (2011) and the Booker Prize (2010).
Room is a novel about a five-year-old boy, Jack, who is being held captive in a small room along with his mother. The story is told from Jack's perspective. Donoghue conceived the story after hearing about five-year-old Felix in the Fritzl case. Room won the 2011 Commonwealth Writers' Prize regional prize (Caribbean and Canada) and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the 2010 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and the 2010 Governor General's Awards.
- Publisher
- Picador
- ISBN-13
- 9781306767606
- Topics
Awards
- Women's Prize for FictionShortlistedMajor(2011)
- The Booker PrizeShortlistedMajor(2010)
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- The Sealed Letter (2008)0 wins · 1 score
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