The room
By: Jonas Karlsson ; translated from the Swedish by Neil Smith
Contributors: Smith, Neil (Neil Andrew), translator
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Isis large print
Publisher: Isis
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781785410758
Subjects: Rooms; Fiction; Clerks; Civil service; Conformity
Description: The Authority looks favourably upon meticulousness, efficiency and ambition. Bjorn has all of this in spades, but it's only in the room that he can really shine. And it's only in the room that he finds harmony, an escape from the triviality of the workplace. Unfortunately, his colleagues see things differently. In fact, they don't appear to see the room at all - eventually leaving Bjorn convinced that they are conducting some sort of psychological warfare against him. But who is right? Is the room a figment of an overactive imagination, the spectre of a mental illness? Or is there something more mysterious going on? And what is the Authority, anyway?
Notes: Adult.