Naomi's Room
Charles, el narrador, es un profesor de Cambridge que vive retirado en la misma casa donde tiempo atrás fue salvajemente descuartizada su pequeña hija Naomí, crimen al que siguió una serie de muertes brutales. Nadie parece capacitado para encontrar una explicación a los asesinatos. Sin embargo, en la antigua habitación de Naomí comienzan a producirse hechos inquietantes, al tiempo que los moradores de la casa tienen sueños extraños, perciben presencias hostiles y respiran una atmósfera cada vez más enrarecida. En algún lugar de la casa anidan los secretos de quienes la han habitado durante décadas, pero sus actuales ocupantes no lo saben... La habitación de Naomí: un alucinante recorrido por las fronteras entre la normalidad y la locura, la vida y la muerte.
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On a Christmas Eve shopping trip in London, a Cambridge academic loses his four-year-old daughter Naomi. Months later he and his wife begin to feel that Naomi has come home. Their house has other ideas.
Yes. Naomi's Room is widely cited as one of the most genuinely terrifying horror novels of recent decades. Jonathan Aycliffe's 1991 novel is short, restrained, and devastating, in the British supernatural-horror tradition.
Naomi's Room is fictional, though Jonathan Aycliffe drew on the documented horror of child disappearances and Victorian ghost-story conventions. The novel reads as period-authentic horror despite being written in the 1990s.
Naomi's Room was written by Jonathan Aycliffe, published in 1991 by HarperCollins.
Naomi's Room is 197 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Naomi's Room takes most readers 3 to 4 hours to finish.
Naomi's Room is a standalone novel by Jonathan Aycliffe, not part of a series.
Naomi's Room is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
