Knihy
Sally Rooney
Intermezzo

Sally Rooney
Intermezzo

2025 | Nakladatelství The Book Service Ltd (TBS/GBS)

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 discov…ered 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.Sally Rooney's book Intermezzo was a bestseller w/c 30/09/2024 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'I…f 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.Sally Rooney's book Intermezzo was a bestseller w/c 30/09/2024

Stav

Nová

Skladem do týdne
Odešleme nejpozději 14. 4. 2026

O knize

Stav:	Nová
Vazba:	Brožovaná
Počet stran:	432
Jazyk:	anglicky
ISBN10:	0571365485
ISBN:	9780571365487
Vydání:	1
Vystaveno:	30. 5. 2025 9:12
Číslo položky:	1251301

O autorovi

Sally Rooney

Sally Rooneyová je irská spisovatelka a scenáristka. Je známá především jako autorka románů, píše i krátká prozaická díla, recenze, eseje. Kromě prózy uveřejňuje i poezii. Vystudovala angličtinu na Trinity College Dublin, začala zde studovat také politiku, ale studium nedokončila. V roce 2013 získala magisterský titul v oboru americká literatura. Během studií se věnovala debatním soutěžím, v roce 2013 zvítězila na Mistrovství Evropy univerzit v debatování. Než se stala spisovatelkou, pracovala v restauraci na administrativní pozici, krátce působila jako redaktorka v literárním časopisu The Stinging Fly. Označuje se za marxistku, žije v Dublinu. Svůj první román napsala ve svých 15 letech. Od 2014 začala psát systematicky. V roce 2015 vyšel její esej Even If You Beat Me o soutěží v debatování, díky němu navázala kontakt s agentkou Tracy Bohanovou z Wylie Agency. Debutový román Rozhovory s přáteli dokončila během magisterského studia americké literatury. Román vyšel v roce 2017 a v roce 2018 byl nominován na Mezinárodní cenu Dylana Thomase Swansea University. a na Folio Prize za rok 2018. Román se stal knihou roku Sunday Times, Observeru a Telegraphu, dostal se do užšího výběru na cenu Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award a získal cenu Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year Award. Podle románu vznikl v roce 2022 televizní seriál. V roce 2018 vyšel její druhý román Normální lidi , který byl nominován na prestižní Man Bookerovu cenu, v roce 2018 získal titul Irský román roku v rámci Irish Book Awards a stal se knihou roku 2018 nakladatelství Waterstones. V roce 2018 získal knižní cenu Costa Book Award a v roce 2019 cenu British Book Awards, v témže roce byl zařazen do nominace na Dylan Thomas Prize a Women's Prize for Fiction. Román byl v roce 2020 adaptován do podoby televizního seriálu. V roce 2...

Více od autora