The Room
  • Published: 8 January 2015
  • ISBN: 9781448191253
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 176
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The Room

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A quirky and unsettling tale, of dark humour and strange realities, about a bureaucrat, an open plan office and a secret room...

The Authority looks favourably upon meticulousness, efficiency and ambition. Bjorn has all of this in spades, but it's only in the Room that he can really shine. Unfortunately, his colleagues see things differently. In fact, they don't even see the Room at all.

The Room is a short, sharp and fiendish fable in the tradition of Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett and Charlie Kauffman. If you have ever toiled in an office, felt like the world was against you or questioned the nature of reality then this is the novel for you.
  • Published: 8 January 2015
  • ISBN: 9781448191253
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 176
Categories:

About the author

Jonas Karlsson

Jonas Karlsson, one of Sweden's most prominent actors, has performed on Sweden's premier stage and in acclaimed feature films and TV series. Karlsson's playwriting debut, Nocturnal Walk, received rave reviews; spurred by the joy of writing for the stage, Karlsson began writing fiction. His first novel in the UK, The Room, was published last year.

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Praise for The Room

The Room is a contemporary version of The Trial by Franz Kafka: the same alienating and disruptive bureaucratic environment and the same hopeless struggle of the individual in the large, historically evolved system

DeMorgen (Netherlands)

The Room is partly disturbing, partially very funny ... Jonas Karlsson masterfully tells us about his main character's Kafkaesque adventure

Panorama (Italy)

A Beckettian drama in an open plan office

Il Giornale (Italy)

A flawless novella that you will finish with a smile

Knack (Netherlands)

Minimalism and surrealism, bundled in a short but powerful novel by Jonas Karlsson, one of Sweden's most successful authors of the moment

DeZondag (Netherlands)
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