The Room

By Jonas Karlsson

Book Overview

"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

Bj?rn 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 Bj?rn 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. Bj?rn's bizarre behavior eventually leads his co-workers to try and have him fired, but Bj?rn 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804139989
• ISBN13: 9780804139984
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Hogarth Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 7.2"