The Room

by Jonas Karlsson

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Pub Date Jan 15 2015 | Archive Date Jan 16 2015

Random House UK, Vintage Publishing | Vintage Digital

General Fiction (Adult)

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. Unfortunately, his colleagues see things differently. In fact, they don't even see the Room at all.

The Room is a short, sharp and fiendish fable in the tradition of Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett and Charlie Kauffman. If you have ever toiled in an office, felt like the world was against you or questioned the nature of reality then this is the novel for you.

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. Unfortunately, his colleagues see...

A Note From the Publisher

UK eiditon – available to read in UK, Commonwealth excluding Canada.

Advance Praise

A Beckettian drama in an open plan office - Il Giornale (Italy)

The Room is partly disturbing, partially very funny ... Jonas Karlsson masterfully tells us about his main character's Kafkaesque adventure - Panorama (Italy)

Minimalism and surrealism, bundled in a short but powerful novel by Jonas Karlsson, one of Sweden's most successful authors of the moment - DeZondag (Netherlands)

The Room is a contemporary version of The Trial by Franz Kafka: the same alienating and disruptive bureaucratic environment and the same hopeless struggle of the individual in the large, historically evolved system - DeMorgen (Netherlands)

A flawless novella that you will finish with a smile - Knack (Netherlands)

Marketing Plan

a compelling, provocative and darkly funny novella - it's a deceptively simple tale that asks quite serious questions about society and the way we treat others

The Room will be published in 12 countries, including Hogarth in the US

we are planning an innovative and fun marketing campaign, and will send proofs out widely for quotes

we'll publish in time for Blue Monday

part The Office, part Being John Malkovich - this book has a surreal edge and the potential to get people talking

a compelling, provocative and darkly funny novella - it's a deceptively simple tale that asks quite serious questions about society and the way we treat others

The Room will be published in 12...