Habitación

Paperback, 379 pages

Spanish language

Published March 13, 2011 by Alfaguara, Santillana.

ISBN:
978-84-204-0661-9
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OCLC Number:
692291714

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4 stars (2 reviews)

Narrator Jack and his mother, who was kidnapped seven years earlier when she was a 19-year-old college student, celebrate his fifth birthday. They live in a tiny, 11-foot-square soundproofed cell in a converted shed in the kidnapper's yard. The sociopath, whom Jack has dubbed Old Nick, visits at night, grudgingly doling out food and supplies. But Ma, as Jack calls her, proves to be resilient and resourceful--and attempts a nail-biting escape.

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Very difficult to read...

4 stars

The subject matter of this book makes it really very difficult to read, and while it covers it really quite well... It goes from, "This is weird, and I am pretty sure it is something along this line," to getting closer and closer to understanding the basics of what is going on, and it kind of takes the story in a way that it just does not feel like it had to basically not get better until "happily ever after"... Especially that it pretty much was a "happily ever after" ending to a story that would continue to play out in the two main characters lives for months or years quite easily... A little too "ended with a nice bow on it..." Not that you would have wanted it to end with much before when it did based on what the author had. Just it was too tied up at …

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Subjects

  • Madre e hijo
  • Secuestro
  • Kidnapping
  • Escapes
  • Evasiones
  • Psychopaths
  • Fiction
  • Boys
  • Psicópatas
  • Muchachos
  • Mother and child
  • Ficción