The Room
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"Originally published in Sweden as "Rummet" in the collection, "Den Perfekta Vannen," published by Wahlstrom & Widstrand, Stockholm, in 2009"--Title page verso.
Includes reading group guide, pages 189-190.
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.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Hogarth, 2015.
Year Published: 2015
Description: 190 pages ; 19 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780804139984
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Smith, Neil.
SUBJECTS
Clerks -- Fiction.
Civil service -- Fiction.
Conformity -- Fiction.
Rooms -- Fiction.