The Room

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A gripping, tense, demonic fable in which the unease is precision-tooled and the turns of the screw wholly unexpected. The Room is the most effective chapbook on workplace comportment since Glengarry Glen Ross. Hats off! Thoroughly enjoyable… If you read only one novel by a famous Swedish actor translated into English this year, make it The Room Kafka meets The Office in this hilarious and chilling Swedish fable of workplace politics A brief but brilliant tale surreal, funny and unsettling The novel works both as a glorious satire of the modern workplace and as a psychological drama played through the eyes of Bjorn, a pedantic and thoroughly unreliable narrator. As entertaining as it is disturbing to be in his mind, I was both intrigued and entertained. This is a very funny book about a magical room, but it is also a familiar, humane story about alienation and intolerance, set during a bleak Swedish winter brilliantly deadpan...often very funny The Room deftly creates an intense mood that remains unbroken for the short, enjoyable period this novella takes to read Expand reviews