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《ROOM房间》简介： “比电影《美丽人生》更艰难、更伟大的爱。” 入围纽约时报2010年十佳图书、2010年曼布克奖短名单，荣获爱尔兰年度小说大奖 一个年轻妈妈的牢笼，是她五岁儿子的全世界。 我四岁的时候，对这世界一无所知，以为它只是一些故事。我五岁的时候，“妈”对我吐露真相，说真实的世界大到你无法相信，而房间只是它一个又小又臭的碎片。 对五岁的杰克而言，房间就是全世界。这是他出生和成长的地方，他跟妈住在这里，学习、阅读、吃饭、睡觉、游戏。 但对妈而言，房间却是老尼克囚禁她七年的监狱。她在不可能的禁闭环境里尽量让杰克健康成长。每晚，她让杰克睡在衣橱里，不让他看到恶男子强暴她的恐怖画面；她也不让杰克沉溺在电视中，规定他每天看电视的时间。然而，她终究只是一个母亲，而非圣母，她会不耐烦，她会生气地对着杰克大吼，她甚至间或性情绪低落到一整天不肯起床，也不给杰克做饭。正是这复杂而不完美的母性，让人纠结不已。 靠着决心、机智和强大的母爱，妈为杰克创造了人生。但她知道这样是不够的……对她不够，对杰克也不够。她想出一个大胆的脱逃计划，需要仰赖她儿子的勇气，以及大量的运气。她没想到的是，对这计划一旦成功会产生什么样的后果，自己竟然没有充分的准备。 《房间》以杰克的五岁的童真口吻来叙述，兴致勃勃，充满好奇。它不是一个恐怖故事，也没有催泪的企图，反而处处透出人类最为纯净的亲情。五岁的杰克打动了每个人的心，他的声音、他的遭遇、他的天真、他的幽默、他对妈的爱，使得故事虽然设定在这么一个令人不安、几近恐怖的前提上，仍然令人时时感受到希望与力量。 It's Jack's birthday, and he's excited about turning five. Jack lives with his Ma in Room, which has a locked door and a skylight, and measures 11 feet by 11 feet. He loves watching TV, and the cartoon characters he calls friends, but he knows that nothing he sees on screen is truly real only him, Ma and the things in Room. Until the day Ma admits that there's a world outside ...Told in Jack's voice, Room is the story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible. Unsentimental and sometimes funny, devastating yet uplifting, Room is a novel like no other. 'Emma Donoghue's writing is superb alchemy, changing innocence into horror and horror into tenderness. Room is a book to read in one sitting. When it's over you look up: the world looks the same but you are somehow different and that feeling lingers for days' Audrey Niffenegger 'Room is one of the most profoundly affecting books I've read in a long time. Jack moved me greatly. His voice, his story, his innocence, his love for Ma combine to create something very unusual and, I think, something very important ...Room deserves to reach the widest possible audience' John Boyne 'I loved Room. Such incredible imagination, and dazzling use of language. And with all this, an entirely credible, endearing little boy. It's unlike anything I've ever read before' Anita Shreve
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