First published 2018
Trapped in a windowless room, a man named Mathieu grapples with his isolation. As the walls close in, he must confront the choices that led him here and the bleak reality of his confinement. With only his thoughts for company, Mathieu's desperate attempts to break free become a haunting meditation on the human need for connection and the crushing weight of solitude.
Genres: fiction, drama, literary-fiction, 20th-century, psychological-thriller, academic
Vibes: atmospheric, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: character-study, psychological-exploration, unreliable-narrator
256 pages · Paperback · Calder Publications Ltd
Content warnings: anxiety, depression, mental-illness