Today I'm five.
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Room is a 2010 novel by Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue. The story is told from the perspective of a five-year-old boy, Jack, who is being held captive in a small room along with his mother. Donoghue conceived the story after hearing about five-year-old Felix in the Fritzl case.
The novel was longlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize and won the 2011 Commonwealth Writers' Prize regional prize (Caribbean and Canada). It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2010, and was shortlisted for the 2010 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the 2010 Governor General's Awards.
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Room: A Novel
2010-09, Little, Brown and Company
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- First Edition (1)
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Room: a novel
2010, HarperCollins Publishers
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Paperback -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 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. 'One of the most profoundly affecting books I've read in a long time'
John Boyne. 'Such incredible imagination, and dazzling use of language ... Room is unlike anything I've ever read before'
Anita Shreve. ' Room is that rarest of entities, an entirely original work of art. I mean it as the highest possible praise when I tell you that I can't compare it to any other book. Suffice to say that it's potent, darkly beautiful, and revelatory'
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Originally published: 2010.
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