THE GLOBAL #1 BESTSELLER
'Intermezzo is perfect ... Is there a better novelist at work right now?' Observer
'Her most mature and moving book to date ... I read it in a state of rapture.' Sunday Times
'If a perfect Sally Rooney novel exists, this might just be it ... Her best novel yet.' Evening Standard
'Rooney has discovered her full literary prowess.' Independent
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.
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Intermezzo is perfect - truly wonderful - a tender, funny page-turner about the derangements of grief, and Rooney's richest treatment yet of messy romantic entanglements . Is there a better novelist at work right now? -- Anthony Cummins ― Observer
Her most mature and moving book to date . By the final pages my eyes were red and swollen. I read it in a state of rapture. -- Johanna Thomas-Corr ― Sunday Times
Rooney has discovered her full literary prowess . [I] felt that for the time spent reading Intermezzo, I had gone more deeply into the world . Sublime literature will do that for you. -- Jo Hamya ― Independent
If a perfect Sally Rooney novel exists, this might just be it . Her best novel yet. ― Evening Standard
Rooney's best book yet . A complex, dark and philosophical read. It's a marvel. ― iNews
Reading her piercing descriptions of passion, heartache, drunkenness or rage, you stop and wonder, how did she know that? ― The Economist
Really impressive and thoroughly enjoyable. I even, as with Conversations With Friends, had a little weep at the end. -- Rick O'Shea ― Irish Independent
A breathtakingly intimate look at love and desire in its many different forms as Rooney delves deep into her characters to reveal what's really in their hearts. ― Red
This is a writer pushing herself to test and explore both her characters and her art . This so-called 'voice of a generation' is in it for the long haul. As are we. ― Marie Claire
Her best yet. There's more introspection here, more vulnerability from the characters, and this allows a greater connection. ― Good Housekeeping
Rooney's no longer just the mouthpiece on twenty-something romantic angst. She's so much more. ― Harper's Bazaar
Book Description
An exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.
About the Author
Sally Rooney is the author of the novels Conversations with Friends, Normal People and Beautiful World, Where Are You. She was the winner of the Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year Award in 2017. Normal People ('the literary phenomenon of the decade', Guardian) was the Waterstones Book of the Year 2019, won the Costa Novel of the Year 2018 and the Royal Society of Literature's Encore Award 2019. Sally Rooney co-wrote the television adaptation of Normal People which was broadcast on the BBC in 2020.
Product details
- Publisher : Faber & Faber; Export edition (24 September 2024)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 448 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0571365477
- ISBN-13 : 978-0571365470
- Item Weight : 450 g
- Dimensions : 13.5 x 3.6 x 21.4 cm
- Country of Origin : United Kingdom
