Voyage to the End of the Room

Voyage to the End of the Room is a 2003 novel by British author Tibor Fischer, about a wealthy woman who never leaves her apartment.

The central character Oceane is a former dancer who worked in Barcelona's sex industry, before making her fortune in software, and is now rich enough that she need never leave her flat.

[3][2] Jay McInerney in the NY Times called it "a sort of parody of his earlier work", and found it offered "intermittent" pleasures from good use of language and observation, but its fashionable foreign settings didn't translate into atmosphere and it could be set anywhere thanks to a general vagueness.

[3] Steven Poole in The Guardian felt that Fischer was unable to create the voice of a female character, and found the book dominated by "stale", pointless and vague wordplay.

[4] The Chicago Tribune's David L. Ulin said "this book marks a turning point in Fischer's career, the place at which we can no longer offer excuses for his decline".