The room : a novel / Jonas Karlsson ; translated from the Swedish by Neil Smith.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Swedish Publisher: London : Hogarth, [2015]Edition: First editionDescription: 190 pages ; 19 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0804139989 (pbk.)
- 9780804139984 (pbk.)
- Rummet. English
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Fiction | Karlsson Jonas | Available | 33111007959402 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"The daily grind got you down? Escape into this Swedish dark comedy about a scaldingly contemptuous office drone who discovers a secret room in his workplace."-- O: The Oprah Magazine
The inspiration for the upcoming feature film Corner Office, starring Jon Hamm
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.
Debut author Jonas Karlsson doesn't leave a word out of place in this brilliant, bizarre, delightful take on how far we will go--in a world ruled by conformity--to live an individual and examined life.
"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.
"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.