书目

Room Movie Tie-in Edition

内容简介

NowaMajorMotionPicturestarringBrieLarsonandWilliamH.Macy#1InternationalBestsellerWinneroftheRogersWriters’TrustFictionPrizeWinneroftheCommonwealthWriters’PrizeforBestBook(CanadaandCaribbeanregion)WinneroftheHughes&HughesIrishNoveloftheYearTofive-year-old-Jack，Roomistheworld.It’swherehewasborn.It’swhereheandMaeatandsleepandplayandlearn.ThereareendlesswondersthatletlooseJack’simagination-thesnakeunderBedthatheconstructsoutofeggshells;thecozinessofWardrobebeneathMa’sclothes，whereshetuckshiminsafelyatnight，incaseOldNickcomes.RoomishometoJack，buttoMa，it’stheprisonwhereshe’sbeenheldsinceshewasnineteen-forsevenlongyears.Throughherfierceloveforherson，shehascreatedalifeforhiminthateleven-by-eleven-footspace.ButJack’scuriosityisbuildingalongsideherowndesperation，andsheknowsthatRoomcannotcontaineitherindefinitely...Toldintheinventive，funny，andpoignantvoiceofJack，Roomisacelebrationofresilience-andapowerfulstoryofamotherandsonwhoseloveletsthemsurvivetheimpossible.

作者简介

EMMADONOGHUEisanIrishemigranttwiceover:shespenteightyearsinCambridgedoingaPhDineighteenth-centuryliteraturebeforemovingtoLondon,Ontario,wheresheliveswithherpartnerandtheirtwochildren.Shealsomigratesbetweengenres,writingliteraryhistory,biographyandstageandradioplays,aswellasfairytalesandshortstories.Sheisbestknownforhernovels,whichrangefromthehistoricaltothecontemporary.HerinternationalbestsellerRoomwasaNewYorkTimesBestBookof2010andafinalistfortheManBooker,CommonwealthandOrangeprizes.TheLotterysPlusOneisherfirstnovelforyoungreaders.Web:emmadonoghue.comTwitter:@EDonoghueWriterFacebook:EmmaDonoghue,

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