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The Room by Jonas Karlsson

The Room

by Jonas Karlsson
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  • Feb 17, 2015, 192 pages
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  • Feb 2015, 192 pages
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I never went into the room that day. But I thought about it several times. It was as if I was thinking: I ought to go into the room.

Excerpted from The Room by Jonas Karlsson. Copyright © 2015 by Jonas Karlsson. Excerpted by permission of Hogarth Books. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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