Sally Rooney: Beautiful World, Where Are You, Gebunden

The new novel from the author of Normal People. ***PRE-ORDER NOW*** 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? Praise for Normal People: 'The literary phenomenon of the decade.' - Guardian 'The best novel published this year.' - The Times 'Quite astonishing.' - Independent 'The most enjoyable novel of the year.' - Daily Telegraph 'Rooney has given us a spellbinding twenty-first-century love story, and asserted herself as one of the major young writers in the English-speaking world.' - Times Literary Supplement

Biografie

Sally Rooney wurde 1991 geboren, ist in Castlebar, County Mayo, aufgewachsen und lebt in Dublin. Ihre frühen Arbeiten sind erschienen in The New Yorker, Granta, The White Review, The Dublin Review, The Stinging Fly, Kevin Barrys Stonecutter und der Anthologie Winter Pages. Sie studierte am Trinity College Dublin, zunächst Politik, machte dann ihren Master in Literatur. Sie war dort 2013 die Nr. 1 bei den European University Debating Championships. Rooneys Debütroman »Gespräche mit Freunden« war Book of the Year in Sunday Times, Guardian, Observer, Daily Telegraph und Evening Standard. Der Roman kam auf die Shortlist des Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year Award 2017, des International Dylan Thomas Prize und des Rathbones Folio Prize 2018. Rooney war die Gewinnerin des Sunday Times/Peters Fraser & Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award 2017, den u.a. auch Zadie Smith und Sarah Waters gewannen. Rooney ist inzwischen Redakteurin des irischen Literaturmagazins The Stinging Fly. Ihr zweiter Roman »Normal People« wurde für den Man Booker Prize 2018 nominiert und gewann u.a. den Costa Novel Award, den An Post Irish Novel of the Year Award und den British Book Award (Novel of the Year und Book of the Year).