Room

Room is a 2010 novel by Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue. The story is told from the perspective of a five-year-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); was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2010 and was shortlisted for the 2010 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the 2010 Governor General's Awards. On the morning of Jack's fifth birthday in Room, he wonders whether he came from Heaven. He asks his Ma where he was before he came to her womb and she says up in Heaven. Jack likes living in Room as it is all he has ever known. Jack and his Ma are "looked after" by Old Nick (Jack calls him this because he comes in the night like the bogey man).

Toàn bộ câu chuyện được kể từ quan điểm của Jack, và những người đang sống trong căn phòng ma của ông.