The Room

The Room A Novel

Paperback (17 Feb 2015)

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Publisher's Synopsis

"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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780804139984
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Imprint: Hogarth
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 192
Weight: 191g
Height: 181mm
Width: 131mm
Spine width: 15mm