Intermezzo Intermezzo

Intermezzo

A Novel

    • 4.4 • 137 Ratings
    • $14.99

Publisher Description

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | A National Indie Bestseller
Short-listed for the An Post Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year
Finalist for the Barnes and Noble Book of the Year
One of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of the Year

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.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2024
September 24
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
464
Pages
PUBLISHER
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
SELLER
Macmillan
SIZE
9.7
MB

Customer Reviews

Eva Palomares ,

Intermezzo

I loved it! It’s difficult to understand the meaning of grief when you are not there, but Rooney achieves very well in it. The whole atmosphere in the book is plenty of this kind of discomfort. I enjoy reading it. La historia de dos hermanos que viven el luto de la pérdida de su padre. La historia de diferentes estilos de amar, en dos, en tres? La hipocresía de la sociedad y el querer siempre dar gusto a los demás. Me encantó.

vc101111 ,

Introspective, unique, and touching

Her writing style is uniquely personal. The simplicity and intricacy balance is captivating.

non-fiction reader ,

Remarkable

Sally Rooney is the most magnificent writer of our time.

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