The Room: A Novel
Jonas Karlsson
The Room: A Novel
Jonas Karlsson
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
Bjoern 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 Bjoern 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. Bjoern’s bizarre behavior eventually leads his co-workers to try and have him fired, but Bjoern 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.
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