The room : a novel
(Book)

"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.