Name: Beautiful World Where are you
Price: 584.00 ZAR
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Author: Sally Rooney
ISBN: 9780571365432

Type

Physical Book

Author

Sally Rooney

Publisher

Faber And Faber

Synopsis "Beautiful World Where are you "

The new novel from the author of Normal People.Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a distribution 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?

Sally Rooney

(Author)

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Sally Rooney is an Irish writer born in 1991, known for her precise style and sharp exploration of human relationships, youth, and emotional dynamics. Her work is mainly framed in the genre of contemporary fiction and psychological realism. Rooney gained great notoriety with her debut Conversations with Friends (2017), a novel that addresses the complexities of friendship and love.

Her second book, Normal People (2018), was even more successful, winning the Costa Book of the Year Award and being adapted into a successful television series. In 2021 she published Beautiful World, Where Are You, continuing with her introspective style and deep characters. Rooney has been acclaimed for her ability to capture the nature of modern relationships, making her one of the most important voices in contemporary literature.

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