New Releases by Sally Rooney

Korean edition of [Intermezzo] by Sally Rooney. AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. A National Indie Bestseller. An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family―but especially love―from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney. Korean edition translated by Jin Heo.

EL LIBRO MÁS ESPERADO DEL AÑO. La nueva novela de Sally Rooney, la aclamada autora de Gente normal. En la lista de los mejores libros del año según Babelia. A pesar de ser hermanos, Peter e Ivan Koubek tienen poco en común. Peter, de treinta y pocos, es un carismático y renombrado abogado en Dublín 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 años, es un ajedrecista de carácter reservado, rígido en su actitud y aparentemente poco empático, que se ve a sí mismo como la antítesis de su hermano mayor, al que considera superficial y hablador. Pocos días después del funeral, Ivan conocerá a Margaret, una mujer catorce años mayor, y sus vidas se entrelazarán rápida e intensamente. Intermezzo es un nuevo interludio para dos hermanos afligidos y las personas que aman, un tiempo cargado de deseo y desesperación, pero también de posibilidades. Una oportunidad para descubrir cuánto puede contener una vida sin romperse. La crítica ha dicho: «Me encanta Sally Rooney. Tiene cantidad de imitadores, pero muy pocos la superan y también son muy pocos los críticos que entienden lo que realmente ocurre en esas novelas. Su talento es excepcional». Zadie Smith «Intermezzo es franqueza y honestidad. Su estilo, sofisticado, desata un torbellino de emociones. Esta novela me entusiasmó y conmovió a partes iguales, y, durante los dos o tres días que pasé leyéndola, mis penas se aligerar». Dwight Garner, The New York Times «Me sentí cambiado, pero sin dejar de ser el mismo, como se siente cuando uno lee a Larkin o a Tolstoi.Aquí, por fin, vemos a Sally Rooney descubriendo todo el potencial de su destreza: prestar atención al mundo que la rodea, descubrir el amor en todas sus complejidades y, una vez hecho esto, ofrecer, genuinamente, esos hallazgos a los demás». Jo Hamya, The Independent «Sally Rooney insiste y profundiza en el amor a través de las relaciones sentimentales de dos hermanos enfrentados. Sus amoríos y desengaños vertebran unas páginas hondas y precisas, que desprenden una verdad comprensiva y hermosa». El Cultural «Puede que Intermezzo sea el libro que sacuda definitivamente a la irlandesa de las etiquetas generacionales y la consagre como lo que es: una gran escritora». Leticia Blanco, El Periódico «Leer a Sally Rooney es fundirse con aquello que siente el personaje. El grado de intimidad y desnudez no sólo física, sino, sobre todo, sentimental no tiene igual en la literatura mundial. Y he aquí la revolución que impone. Una revolución que, en Intermezzo es aún más evidente. Puesto que llega aún más lejos. En todos los sentidos». Laura Fernández «Casi quinientas páginas sin una sola frase banal. Y sí, todo pasa según el canon de lo mainstream, pero es que ese es el mundo de Sally Rooney, una escritora de Dublín heredera de la mejor tradición literaria anglosajona. Ésta sólo puede ser una de las mejores novelas del año». Marina Espasa, Diari ARA

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, 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.

Vier millennials: een jonge succesvolle schrijfster, haar vriend die magazijnmedewerker is, haar jeugdvriendin Eileen en hun beider jeugdvriend politiek adviseur Simon zitten zo vast in een krampachtige relatie met zichzelf en de wereld dat het bijna onmogelijk is om spontaan lief te hebben of te leven.

AHORA UNA SERIE ORIGINAL EN HULU. El gran debut de Sally Rooney se produjo con una de las novelas de ficción más esperadas. Una historia fresca sobre el amor y contra las etiquetas en las relaciones. Tras recitar sus poemas en una velada literaria en Dublín, Frances y Bobbi conocen a Melissa, una atractiva escritora que quiere publicar un reportaje sobre ellas. Estas dos universitarias que en el pasado fueron pareja se verán atraídas hacia ella y su marido Nick: un matrimonio acomodado que se acerca a la cuarentena y con el que terminarán formando un complejo ménage à quatre. Ambientada en la bohemia artística irlandesa, esta historia de amores libres y relaciones ambiguas ofrece un retrato honesto de una generación que rechaza las etiquetas impuestas. Entre presentaciones de libros, estrenos teatrales y vacaciones en la Bretaña francesa, las conversaciones de los personajes convierten el debut de Sally Rooney en una novela de ideas marcada por unos diálogos ocurrentes y un hábil sentido del humor. La autora indaga en las delicadas crueldades de la interacción humana en una obra inteligente sobre la amistad, el deseo y los celos. Mientras sus personajes descubren el poder que tienen sobre los otros, Rooney articula una adictiva historia sobre el funcionamiento de la inocencia, el impacto de la infidelidad y el espejismo del libre albedrío. Conversaciones entre amigos ha situado a Rooney como una de las voces más prometedoras de su generación. Una obra aguda y reveladora que es a la vez una novela de iniciación, una comedia sobre el amor y un alegato feminista. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION NOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES from the New York Times bestselling author of Normal People... “[A] cult-hit... [a] sharply realistic comedy of adultery and friendship.” —Entertainment Weekly SALLY ROONEY NAMED TO THE TIME 100 NEXT LIST WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES (UK) YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD ONE OF BUZZFEED’S BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Vogue, Slate ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Elle Frances is a coolheaded and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance one night, they meet a well-known photographer, and as the girls are then gradually drawn into her world, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman’s sophisticated home and handsome husband, Nick. But however amusing Frances and Nick’s flirtation seems at first, it begins to give way to a strange—and then painful—intimacy. Written with gemlike precision and marked by a sly sense of humor, Conversations with Friends is wonderfully alive to the pleasures and dangers of youth, and the messy edges of female friendship. “A writer of rare confidence, with a lucid, exacting style... One wonderful aspect of Rooney’s consistently wonderful novel is the fierce clarity with which she examines the self-delusion that so often festers alongside presumed self-knowledge... But Rooney’s natural power is as a psychological portraitist. She is acute and sophisticated about the workings of innocence; the protagonist of this novel about growing up has no idea just how much of it she has left to do.” —Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker

Alice ve Eileen, farklı şehirlerde yaşayan, otuzlarına yaklaşan iki arkadaş. Roman yazarı Alice, flört uygulaması sayesinde bir depo işçisi olan Felix’le tanışıp yakınlaşır. Eileen ise sona eren ilişkisinin yaralarını sarmaya çabalarken bir yandan da çocukluk arkadaşı Simon’ın çekimine kapıldığını hisseder. Alice ve Eileen ilişkiler, sanat, edebiyat ve günbegün belirsizleşen gelecekleri hakkında yazışırken hem arkadaşlıklarını hem de hayata bakışlarını sorgulamaya başlarlar. Zira aşklarına, kalp kırıklıklarına, günü yaşamaya ve muhabbetlerine tepelerinden ayrılmak bilmeyen bir bulut eşlik eder. Karanlıktan önceki son durak mıdır bu? Güzel bir dünyanın varlığına inanmanın bir yolu var mıdır? Sally Rooney insan doğasını kavrayışındaki yeteneğini bir kez daha samimi ve yalın bir dille gözler önüne seriyor. “Güzel Dünya, Neredesin? Rooney’nin şimdiye dek yazdığı en iyi roman. Mizahi ve zeki diyaloglarıyla, birbirleriyle çaresizce bağ kurmaya çalışan karakterleriyle muhteşem bir eser.” Brandon Taylor, The New York Times Book Review “Yazarın yeteneğini gözler önüne seren bir eser. Diyaloglar asla aksamıyor, nesri sayfayı yakıp kül ediyor.” Anne Enright, The Guardian #arkadaşlık #ilişkiler #gelecekkaygısı #sanat #ykuşağı #gençlik #aşk

Connell ve Marianne, İrlanda’nın küçük bir şehrinde yaşayan, aynı okula giden iki genç. Connell okulun en popüler ve başarılı öğrencilerindenken Marianne içedönük, sevilmeyen, hatta dışlanan bir tip. İkili bir gün sohbet etmeye başlar ve bu sohbet giderek uzar, ikisinin de hayatını değiştirecek bir ilişkiye dönüşür. Normal İnsanlar arkadaşlık, karşılıklı çekim ve aşk üzerine bir roman. Sally Rooney lise yıllarından üniversiteye uzanan bir ilişkinin kaydını tutuyor; toplumda yer edinme ve özgürleşme mücadelesi veren, birbirlerinden asla ayrı kalamayan, ancak sevmek için de çetin sınavlar vermek zorunda kalan iki gencin hikâyesiyle bir kuşağı temsil ediyor. BRITISH BOOK AWARDS YILIN KİTABI VE YILIN ROMANI ÖDÜLÜ AN POST IRISH YILIN ROMANI ÖDÜLÜ 2018 COSTA EN İYİ ROMAN ÖDÜLÜ 2018 BOOKER ÖDÜLÜ ADAYI 2019 WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION ADAYI “Normal İnsanlar’ı elimden bırakamadım, Sally Rooney bir cevher.” Elif Batuman, Ecinniler’in yazarı “Ne kadar övsem az. Doğal, samimi, dokunaklı, yoğun ve seksi bir kitap. Keşke ben yazmış olsaydım.” JOJO MOYES “Yıllardır okuduğum en iyi genç yazar – hatta en iyi yazar.” Olivia Laing, New Statesman “Normal İnsanlar günümüzde genç olmayı anlatmaktan fazlasını yapıyor ve herhangi bir zamanda genç ve âşık olmanın ne demek olduğunu bize gösteriyor. Geleceğimizin bir klasiği.” The Guardian #aşk #tutku #arkadaşlık #ykuşağı #gençlik #depresyon #ilişkiler #aile

«Chi pensa che Sally Rooney parli di una generazione, sbaglia. Il suo è il racconto preciso, straziante di un'epoca». Teresa Ciabatti Alice ha scritto due romanzi di enorme successo, ma per trovare compagnia deve andare su Tinder. Eileen, la sua amica, lavora per una rivista letteraria, però non ci paga l'affitto. Simon ama da sempre la stessa donna, ma da sempre ne frequenta altre. Felix passa in birreria il tempo libero dal lavoro di magazziniere, ma la sua è soltanto una fuga. Alice, Eileen, Simon e Felix si parlano, si fraintendono, si deludono e si amano e, mentre attraversano il cerchio di fuoco dei trent'anni, si chiedono se esista davvero, al di là, un mondo bello in cui sperare.

Delve deeper into the Emmy- and Golden Globe–nominated Hulu series based on Sally Rooney''s bestselling novel with this must-have collection of the Normal People scripts, featuring behind-the-scenes photos and an introduction by director Lenny Abrahamson. “You know, I did used to think that I could read your mind at times.” “In bed you mean.” “Yeah. And afterwards but I dunno maybe that''s normal.” “It’s not.” Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in the west of Ireland, but the similarities end there. In school, Connell is popular. Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation, something life-changing begins. With an introduction by director Lenny Abrahamson and featuring iconic images from the show, Normal People: The Scripts contains the complete screenplays of the acclaimed Emmy- and Golden Globe–nominated television drama that The New York Times called “an unusually thoughtful and moving depiction of young people’s emotional lives.”

Ganadora del Goodreads Choice Awards 2021 La historia de dos amigas que buscan el amor y la belleza ante un mundo incierto. La nueva novela de la aclamada autora de Gente normal. «El fenómeno literario de la década.» -The Guardian «La mejor novela publicada este año.» -The Times «Literatura en mayúsculas.» -El País Dos amigas se acercan a la treintena en ciudades distintas y tras mucho tiempo sin verse. Alice, novelista, conoce a Felix, que trabaja en un almacén, y le pide que la acompañe a Roma para promocionar su último libro. En Dublín, su mejor amiga, Eileen, está superando una ruptura y empieza a flirtear con Simon, un chico al que conoce desde que eran niños. Mientras el verano se acerca, las dos chicas se envían correos electrónicos en los que se ponen al día. Hablan de su amistad, de sus relaciones, de arte, literatura y de un futuro cada vez más incierto. Dicen que quieren verse pronto, pero ¿qué pasará cuando lo hagan? Alice, Felix, Eileen y Simon todavía son jóvenes, pero pronto dejarán de serlo. Se juntan y se separan, se desean y se mienten. Tienen sexo, sufren por amor, por sus amistades y por el mundo en el que viven. ¿Están en la última sala iluminada antes de la oscuridad? ¿Encontrarán una manera de creer en un mundo bello? Rooney despliega de nuevo su capacidad para analizar el comportamiento humano y vuelve a demostrar por qué es una de las autoras más importantes del momento en una novela que busca la belleza en los claroscuros de la amistad y en el porvenir incierto de nuestro planeta. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Winner of the Goodreads Choice Awards 2021 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?

#1 INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK ONE OF TIME''S MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2021 NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY BUZZFEED, ESQUIRE, THE GUARDIAN, KIRKUS REVIEWS AND FINANCIAL TIMES “Beautiful World, Where Are You is Rooney’s best novel yet. Funny and smart, full of sex and love and people doing their best to connect.” —The New York 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 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?

Alice, en ung och firad romanförfattare, träffar lagerarbetaren Felix på Tinder och bjuder med honom på en resa till Rom. I Dublin försöker hennes bästa vän Eileen komma över sitt ex, och söker upp barndomsvännen Simon. Alice och Eileen håller sin vänskap högt, men en onämnbar spricka har uppstått mellan dem. "Vackra värld, var är du" är en roman om vänskap, kärlek och sex, och om känslan av att befinna sig i det sista upplysta rummet innan apokalypsens mörker.

Download the first chapter of 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?

正常人是爱尔兰90后作家莎莉·鲁尼继轰动文坛的处女作聊天记录之后第二年,在2018年紧接着出版的第二部小说,获得更高的好评.小说描写两个出身不同,性格各异的年轻人康奈尔和玛丽安娜从高中到大学的成长,友谊和爱情.作者用细腻而又深刻的笔触,去揭示这两位年轻人真实的内心世界.在向读者展示青春的美好的同时,又在毫不留情地揭穿那些我们寄托在过往时光上的谎言.

Después de Conversaciones entre amigos, Sally Rooney vuelve a deslumbrarnos con una historia sobre la fascinación mutua entre dos personas que no consiguen encontrarse. El libro que inspiró la serie de HULU. Ganador del Costa Novel Award / Ganador del Irish Novel of the Year / Finalista del Man Booker Prize / Finalista del Women’s Prize for Fiction / En la lista de libros favoritos del 2019 del Presidente Obama y de Oprah Magazine. Marianne y Connell son compañeros de instituto pero no se cruzan palabra. Él es uno de los populares y ella, una chica solitaria que ha aprendido a mantenerse alejada del resto de la gente. Todos saben que Marianne vive en una mansión y que la madre de Connell se encarga de su limpieza, pero nadie imagina que cada tarde los dos jóvenes coinciden. Uno de esos días, una conversación torpe dará comienzo a una relación que podría cambiar sus vidas. Gente normal es una historia de fascinación mutua, de amistad y de amor entre dos personas que no consiguen encontrarse, una reflexión sobre la dificultad de cambiar quienes somos. La segunda novela de Sally Rooney acompaña durante años a dos protagonistas magnéticos y complejos, dos jóvenes que llegamos a entender hasta en su contradicción más sonada y en sus más graves malentendidos. Esta es una historia agridulce que muestra como nos conforman el sexo y el poder, el deseo de herir y ser herido, de amar y ser amado. Nuestras relaciones son una conversación a lo largo del tiempo. Nuestros silencios, lo que las define. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • NOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES 2020 • SALLY ROONEY NAMED TO THE 2019 TIME 100 NEXT LIST “A stunning novel about the transformative power of relationships” (People) from the author of Conversations with Friends, “a master of the literary page-turner” (J. Courtney Sullivan). NAMED ONE OF ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY’S TEN BEST NOVELS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Entertainment Weekly • People • The New York Public Library • Slate • Harvard Crimson AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Dwight Garner, The New York Times • The New York TImes Book Review • O: The Oprah Magazine • Time • NPR • The Washington Post • Vogue • Esquire • Glamour • Elle • Marie Claire • Vox • The Paris Review • Good Housekeeping • Town & Country • Kirkus Reviews • BookPage • BookRiot “Absolutely engrossing and surprisingly heartbreaking with more depth, subtlety, and insight than any one novel deserves.”—Stephanie Danler 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.

Korean edition of [Normal People] by Sally Rooney. New York Times Bestseller. Ten Best Books of 2018 by People, Slate, The New York Public Library and Harvard Crimson. A story of mutual fascination, friendship and love. It takes us from that first conversation to the years beyond, in the company of two people who try to stay apart but find that they can't. Korean edition translated by Kim Hee Yong.

Frances und ihre Freundin Bobbi, Studentinnen in Dublin, lernen das gut zehn Jahre ältere Ehepaar Melissa und Nick kennen. Sie treffen sich bei Events, zum Essen, führen Gespräche. Persönlich und online diskutieren sie über Sex und Freundschaft, Kunst und Literatur, Politik und Genderfragen und, natürlich, über sich selbst. Während Bobbi von Melissa fasziniert ist, fühlt sich Frances immer stärker zu Nick hingezogen ... Ein intensiver Roman über Intimität, Untreue und die Möglichkeit der Liebe, eine hinreißende, kluge Antwort auf die Frage, wie es ist, heute jung und weiblich zu sein.

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. 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.

Geschreven in een heldere stijl en met onderkoelde humor is Gesprekken met vrienden een moderne roman over de jeugd, met de bijbehorende lusten en lasten. Rooney wordt gezien als de nieuwe Bret Easton Ellis, J.D. Salinger en Sylvia Plath. Frances is 21 jaar oud, koel en observerend. Ze studeert en doet samen met haar beste vriendin Bobbi deel aan poetryslams in Dublin, waar ze gespot worden door journalist Melissa. Frances raakt tegen wil en dank onder de indruk van haar en haar echtgenoot Nick, die nooit echt is doorgebroken als acteur. Wat aan het begin een onschuldige flirt lijkt, groeit al snel uit tot een vreemd soort intimiteit. Frances probeert haar leven op orde te houden, maar haar relaties ontsnappen steeds meer aan haar greep. Dan probeert ze iets radicaals: van moment tot moment leven. 'Gesprekken met vrienden is eerst en vooral een roman over volwassenwording en over de rol die communicatie, digitaal en analoog, daarbij speelt. En dat in fraaie, beeldende stijl.' – de Volkskrant

NOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES • From the New York Times bestselling author of Normal People . . . “[A] cult-hit . . . [a] sharply realistic comedy of adultery and friendship.”—Entertainment Weekly SALLY ROONEY NAMED TO THE TIME 100 NEXT LIST • WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES (UK) YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD • ONE OF BUZZFEED’S BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE AND THE TELEGRAPH’S 20 BEST NOVELS OF ALL TIME • ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Vogue, Slate • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Elle Frances is a coolheaded and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance one night, they meet a well-known photographer, and as the girls are then gradually drawn into her world, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman’s sophisticated home and handsome husband, Nick. But however amusing Frances and Nick’s flirtation seems at first, it begins to give way to a strange—and then painful—intimacy. Written with gemlike precision and marked by a sly sense of humor, Conversations with Friends is wonderfully alive to the pleasures and dangers of youth, and the messy edges of female friendship. SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD “Sharp, funny, thought-provoking . . . a really great portrait of two young women as they’re figuring out how to be adults.”—Celeste Ng, Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast “The dialogue is superb, as are the insights about communicating in the age of electronic devices. Rooney has a magical ability to write scenes of such verisimilitude that even when little happens they’re suspenseful.”—Curtis Sittenfeld, The Week “Rooney has the gift of imbuing everyday life with a sense of high stakes . . . a novel of delicious frictions.”—New York “A writer of rare confidence, with a lucid, exacting style . . . One wonderful aspect of Rooney’s consistently wonderful novel is the fierce clarity with which she examines the self-delusion that so often festers alongside presumed self-knowledge. . . . But Rooney’s natural power is as a psychological portraitist. She is acute and sophisticated about the workings of innocence; the protagonist of this novel about growing up has no idea just how much of it she has left to do.”—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker “This book. This book. I read it in one day. I hear I’m not alone.”—Sarah Jessica Parker (Instagram)

This year''s six shortlisted stories for the world''s richest short story prize, the £30,000 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award.