TY - BOOK AU - Karlsson,Jonas AU - Smith,Neil TI - The room: a novel SN - 0804139989 (pbk.) PY - 2015///] CY - London PB - Hogarth KW - Clerks KW - Fiction KW - Conformity KW - Psychological fiction N1 - "Originally published in Sweden as Rummet in the collection Den perfekta vannen, published by Wahlstrom & Widstrand, Stockholm, in 2009"--Title page verso; Includes discussion questions N2 - "Björn is a compulsive, meticulous bureaucrat who discovers a secret room at the government office where he works--a secret room that no one else in his office will acknowledge. When Björn is in his room, what his co-workers see is him standing by the wall and staring off into space looking dazed, relaxed, and decidedly creepy. Björn's bizarre behavior eventually leads his co-workers to try and have him fired, but Björn will turn the tables on them with help from his secret room"--Amazon.com ER -