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.
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Intermezzo: A Novel
By Sally Rooney
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.
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Reviewed by Lina Spaete‚Anhaftung, der Ursprung allen Leidens, so heißt es bei den Buddhisten. Das Festhalten an dem, was man hat, dem Leben, das man kennt, den paar Menschen und Orten, die man wirklich liebt, festhalten und nicht loslassen. Niemals nachgeben, niemals akzeptieren, sich immer nur noch tiefer verstricken, noch fester klammern, noch stärker lieben und hassen‘ Ein besonderes Buch & beide Brüder auf ihre seltsame Weise ganz toll.
Reviewed by Kathabgebrochen
Reviewed by Ingrid KöhlerGlad, it's over. But I really like the style of writing.
Reviewed by Iduna WI’m actually really disappointed by this. I’m usually a big fan of Sally Rooney, but this one just wasn’t for me. I found all of the characters highly unlikeable, which made it difficult to connect with the story. I also really disliked the writing style in the Peter chapters.
Reviewed by Sophia 🦆neben "ein wenig leben" mein jahresfavorit. hat mich sehr begeistert.