Room
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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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…of their small town in Naples. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel - My guess is that plenty of people here have read it. Great read about the fall of civilization due to a massive flu outbreak. Room by Emma Donoghue - Beautiful, heartbreaking, troubling and uplifting. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood - A classic, glad to finally read it. The Room by Jonas Karlsson - Absurdist take on corporate…
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2015?” ↗It’s older, but I read The Wonder by Emma Donoghue. The movie just came out on Netflix too so the timing was great. She wrote Room previously and really enjoyed it
on “Ask HN: Best books read in 2022” ↗