The Room
Jonas Karlsson$11.90
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"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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Hogarth Press
Published: 02/17/2015
ISBN: 9780804139984
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.20h x 5.30w x 0.60d
Review Citations: Library Journal 11/15/2014 pg. 78
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2014
Booklist 12/15/2014 pg. 27
Publishers Weekly 12/15/2014
Shelf Awareness 02/17/2015
New York Times Book Review 03/22/2015 pg. 30
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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Hogarth Press
Published: 02/17/2015
ISBN: 9780804139984
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.20h x 5.30w x 0.60d
Review Citations: Library Journal 11/15/2014 pg. 78
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2014
Booklist 12/15/2014 pg. 27
Publishers Weekly 12/15/2014
Shelf Awareness 02/17/2015
New York Times Book Review 03/22/2015 pg. 30