A boy wakes to find himself locked in a white room. He has no memories, no idea who he is and no idea how he got here.
A computer-generated voice named Alice responds to his questions – through her, he is able to access the internet. He gradually pieces together his story – an abduction, a critical injury, snippets of his past … But how can the boy tell what’s real and what’s not? Who is he really?
A gripping YA sci-fi thriller by German and Spiegel-bestselling author, Karl Olsberg. Boy in a White Room was nominated for Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis 2018, Germany’s most prestigious youth fiction award.
First, as always with books in translation, the quality of the translation. I'm happy to say this one is high. The translation is almost seamless, just a little formal in spots ... and given the topics this book covers, that's very impressive. It can't have been easy to translate. This is a complex book.
I received a free copy and am giving an honest review.
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