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Intermezzo

The global #1 bestseller from the author of Normal People

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Intermezzo

Yazan: Sally Rooney
Seslendiren: Éanna Hardwicke
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THE GLOBAL NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER

OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD

'I read it in a state of rapture.' SUNDAY TIMES
'A tender, funny page-turner.' OBSERVER
'Come for the romance, stay for the meaning of life.' IRISH TIMES
'A breathtakingly intimate look at love and desire in its many different forms.' RED

From the author of the multimillion-copy bestseller Normal People, an exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family.

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.

Readers love Intermezzo:

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'An intimate and emotional read . I put the book down feeling that I am richer for having read it.' Megan

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A beautifully written book with characters that capture the heart of the reader.' Sinead

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I'm envious of anyone yet to read this, you're in for a treat.' Anon

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'The characters are brilliant; complex, heartful, raw and impactful.' S. Payne

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Shows dazzling skill but also heart-wrenching compassion and humanity.' Tom

Sally Rooney's book Intermezzo was a bestseller w/c 30/09/2024

©2024 Sally Rooney (P)2024 Faber & Faber
2024\u2019ün en iyileri Editörün Seçimi Family Life Genre Fiction Literary Fiction World Literature Samimi Keder
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Editorial Review

Sally Rooney raises her game
We may not be getting bucket hats this time, but a new Sally Rooney novel is still an EVENT. And Intermezzo is much more than a must-have accessory, though you’ll see it everywhere this fall. If you’ve been pining for Sally’s liquid sentences and diamond insights, here they are, this time in a tale of two brothers: Peter, a dashing early-thirtysomething who “goes along the surface of life very smoothly” according to Ivan, younger by a decade, a neurodiverse chess prodigy a bit past his prime – both of them navigating romances while facing the recent death of their father. I’m inhaling the vivid scenes and blasé bombshells – “Plain, unappealing people are by no means exempt from the experience of strong passions,” muses Ivan, for one. This is also a first-time departure from Rooney’s signature narrator, Aoife McMahon. I will always love Aoife, but man, Éanna Hardwicke, who you know as Rob from TV’s Normal People, is the perfect voice for this novel: intelligent, charismatic and (yes!) demurely sexy as only Irish men know how. Well played, all around. — Kat J., Audible Editor

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I have never listened to s book that so instantly sent me to sleep. The narration was so flat, so lifeless that it was like a stage curtain descending whenever the reader started, sleep overtook me. The story, dull as dishwater, just didn't have a single hook to keep me listening. Don't know how anyone enjoyed it.

Snorefest

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It took me a little longer to get into this, compared to previous Sally Rooney books, but I was drawn in so deep I felt I was living it.
The writing is so focused and detailed and yet so effortless and natural that each nuance, every thought and emotion is perfectly realised.
Sad and beautiful, I didn’t want it to end.

Forensic exploration of grief

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I’ve been enjoying this book. Another strong showing for Irish literature. Sally Rooney does well to explore themes around relationships. It is generally well written but the author lacks an ability to change pace in her narrative. It is also a fairly standard attempt by a female to write through the eyes of male characters which doesn’t quite work. Whilst Sally’s charaterization is well devloped she hasnt full captured the male psyche. With a bit more work this good book could have achieved a great deal more.

Solid novel good read but not quite great

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Honestly loved this, Cried continuously. Read the book and immediately downloaded the audiobook so I could experience it again. The performance was pitch perfect.

I struggled with the first chapter initially trying to get used to the style and pacing.

This is a story about two brothers who would deem themselves opposites but fundamentally are both the same. The way Rooney writes about love, grief and loneliness floored me, she has so much empathy for her characters and the human experience. Definitely her saddest and best book to date.

Unputdownable

loved loved loved this book

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Disliked nothing, enjoyed getting to understand the characters and the in depth analysis of their feelings

The family misunderstandings, hit a nerve

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