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An exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.
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.
Author: Sally Rooney
Trade Paperback Published 24 September 2024 448 pages
Read and Recommended by Hendri:
"Intermezzo is Sally Rooney at her most compelling. The novel explores the strained relationship between two brothers, Ivan and Peter, as they grapple with their father's death. Amid their shared grief, both must confront their past and the complex, sometimes fraught relationships with the women in their lives—challenges that continuously threaten to fracture their fragile bond."