The room : a novel / Jonas Karlsson ; translated from the Swedish by Neil Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Karlsson, Jonas, 1971- author.

Contributor:

Smith, Neil (Neil Andrew), translator.

Standardized Title:

Rummet. English

Language:

English

Swedish

Subjects (All):

Clerks--Fiction.

Clerks.

Conformity.

Conformity--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Physical Description:

190 pages ; 19 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Hogarth, [2015]

Summary:

"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.

Notes:

"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.

ISBN:

0804139989

9780804139984

OCLC:

881418071

Publisher Number:

99962305548