The Room: A Novel

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.