«Selon les bouddhistes, l'attachement est à l'origine de toutes les souffrances. On s'accroche à ce qu'on a, à ce qu'on a eu, à la vie qu'on a connue, aux quelques personnes et endroits qu'on a vraiment aimés, et on refuse de les lâcher. » Ivan et Peter, deux frères que les années ont éloignés, se retrouvent à la mort de leur père. Ivan, vingt-deux ans, est un brillant joueur d'échecs, solitaire et frustré. Peter, juriste renommé de Dublin, est un trentenaire aux multiples conquêtes. Tous deux vivent des amours périlleuses pendant ce moment délicat du deuil, intermède de vie où la fragilité n'exclut pas l'aventure. L'autrice de Normal People saisit ici avec une rare acuité la complexité des sentiments et des désirs, la puissance des liens fraternels et les nouvelles façons de faire couple.
Connell et Marianne ont grandi dans la même ville d'Irlande. Il est le garçon en vue du lycée, elle est la solitaire un peu maladroite, ils connaissent ensemble leur premier amour. Un an plus tard, alors que Marianne s'épanouit au Trinity College de Dublin, Connell s'acclimate mal à la vie universitaire. Entre eux, le jeu vient tout juste de commencer.
Un roman magistral sur la jeunesse, l'amitié, le sexe, et cette génération qui n'a plus le droit de rêver, mais qui s'entête à espérer.
«Nick n'a quasiment pas parlé, tandis que Melissa nous posait plein de questions. Elle nous faisait beaucoup rire aussi, mais à la manière dont on force quelqu'un à manger quelque chose dont il n'a pas envie.» Frances et Bobbi, étudiantes à Dublin, sont amies depuis que leur histoire d'amour a pris fin. Un soir, lors d'une de leurs performances poétiques, elles font la rencontre de Melissa, autrice et photographe, d'une dizaine d'années leur aînée. Celle-ci les présente à Nick, son mari, acteur. L'alchimie est immédiate entre les quatre artistes. Peu à peu, au fil des soirées passées à refaire le monde, la joyeuse amitié se transforme en un maelström de désir et de sentiments amoureux qui ne laissera personne indemne.
Alice, romancière à succès, a quitté Dublin pour un village isolé. Elle fait la connaissance de Felix sur un site de rencontres. Eileen, la meilleure amie d'Alice, est restée dans la capitale et travaille pour un magazine littéraire. Elle renoue avec Simon, un ami d'enfance. Tous se désirent, se trompent, se quittent. Ils sont jeunes et ont toute la vie devant eux. Mais le monde qui les entoure s'est assombri, est devenu matérialiste ; les inégalités se creusent et la violence sociale augmente. Comment croire encore à l'amour, à l'amitié, à la beauté ?
Après Normal People, Sally Rooney dépeint les rêves et les déceptions de ces enfants du siècle avec une justesse remarquable.
'' Beautiful World, Where Are You is Rooney''s best novel.'' THE TIMES ***PRE-ORDER NOW*** *The Sunday Times and Global number one bestseller* *Winner of Novel of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards* *A Book of the Year in The Times , the Guardian , the Irish Times and the Financial Times* ''A tour de force.'' Anne Enright, Guardian ''Rooney''s best novel yet.'' Brandon Taylor, New York Times ''Get ready to have your heart broken all over again.'' Red ''The book moved me to tears more than once.'' The Times Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he''d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break-up and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen and Simon are still young - but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they worry about sex and friendship and the times they live in. Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?
'This book. This book. I read it in one day. I hear I'm not alone.' - Sarah Jessica Parker (Instagram) WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES / PFD YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2018 SHORTLISTED FOR THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2018 SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2018 LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2018 A SUNDAY TIMES , OBSERVER AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR Frances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed and observant. A student in Dublin and an aspiring writer, at night she performs spoken word with her best friend Bobbi, who used to be her girlfriend. When they are interviewed and then befriended by Melissa, a well-known journalist who is married to Nick, an actor, they enter a world of beautiful houses, raucous dinner parties and holidays in Provence, beginning a complex menage-a-quatre. But when Frances and Nick get unexpectedly closer, the sharply witty and emotion-averse Frances is forced to honestly confront her own vulnerabilities for the first time.
AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Beautiful World, Where Are You is a new novel by Sally Rooney, the bestselling author of Normal People and Conversations with Friends . Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he''d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young-but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?
Die Geschichte einer intensiven Liebe: Connell und Marianne wachsen in derselben Kleinstadt im Westen Irlands auf, aber das ist auch schon alles, was sie gemein haben. In der Schule ist Connell beliebt, der Star der Fußballmannschaft, Marianne die komisch
La nueva novela de Sally Rooney, la aclamada autora de Gente normal.
«El fenómeno literario de la década». -
«Literatura en mayúsculas». -
A pesar de ser hermanos, Peter e Ivan Koubek tienen poco en común.
Peter, de treinta y pocos, es un carismatico y renombrado abogado en Dublin de apariencia inquebrantable. Tras la muerte de su padre, lucha por mantener bajo control su caótica vida personal. Se medica para poder dormir y manejar la relación sentimental que mantiene con dos mujeres muy diferentes: su eterno primer amor, Sylvia, y Naomi, una estudiante universitaria que no se toma la vida muy enserio.
Ivan, de veintidós anos, es un ajedrecista de caracter reservado, rigido en su actitud y aparentemente poco empatico, que se ve a si mismo como la antitesis de su hermano mayor, al que considera superficial y hablador. Pocos dias después del funeral, Ivan conocera a Margaret, una mujer catorce anos mayor, y sus vidas se entrelazaran rapida e intensamente.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family--but especially love--from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.
Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.
Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties--successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father's death, he's medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women--his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.
Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.
For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude--a period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.
My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all. Years ago, Sukie moved in with Nathan because her mother was dead and her father was difficult, and she had nowhere else to go. Now they are on the brink of the inevitable. Sally Rooney is one of the most acclaimed young talents of recent years. With her minute attention to the power dynamics in everyday speech, she builds up sexual tension and throws a deceptively low-key glance at love and death.
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2018 WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE SPECSAVERS NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS INTERNATIONAL AUTHOR OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there; they are from very different worlds. When they both earn places at Trinity College in Dublin, a connection that has grown between them lasts long into the following years. This is an exquisite love story about how a person can change another person's life - a simple yet profound realisation that unfolds beautifully over the course of the novel. It tells us how difficult it is to talk about how we feel and it tells us - blazingly - about cycles of domination, legitimacy and privilege. Alternating menace with overwhelming tenderness, Sally Rooney's second novel breathes fiction with new life.
