The room
Subtitle: a novel
By: Jonas Karlsson ; translated from the Swedish by Neil Smith
Contributors: Smith, Neil, translator
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Hogarth
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780804139984
Subjects: Clerks; Civil service; Conformity; Rooms; Fiction
Work titles: Rummet
Description: Bjorn 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 Bjorn 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. Bjorn's bizarre behavior eventually leads his co-workers to try and have him fired, but Bjorn will turn the tables on them with help from his secret room.
Notes: Translation from the Swedish of: Rummet.

Includes reading group guide, pages 189-190.