Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney - Fiction - Paperback

Condition : BRAND NEW
Format : Paperback
ISBN : 9780571365449
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Age Range : Adult (18+)

Overview

Beautiful World, Where Are You is Sally Rooney's Sunday Times and Global number one bestselling novel, a sharp, tender exploration of friendship, love and connection in the modern world. Following two women in their late twenties navigating career, romance and the search for meaning, this brand new paperback edition brings Rooney's celebrated prose to readers looking for intelligent, emotionally resonant contemporary fiction. A must-have for fans of literary fiction and coming-of-age storytelling.

About the Book

Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and impulsively asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. Meanwhile 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. Told through alternating perspectives and a series of intimate emails between Alice and Eileen, the novel weaves together four lives caught between ambition and uncertainty. Alice, Felix, Eileen and Simon are still young, but life is catching up with them fast. They desire each other, they misunderstand each other, and they wrestle constantly with questions of sex, friendship, faith, politics, and the strange times they live in. Rooney's trademark sparse, precise style captures the ache of modern relationships with unflinching honesty, examining how people try to build meaningful lives and connections amid personal doubt and a world that often feels chaotic. Big questions about capitalism, beauty, and whether it's even possible to live an ethical life sit alongside deeply human moments of longing, humour and vulnerability. As the characters drift towards and away from one another, the novel asks whether love and friendship can offer something like redemption. It is a story that is at once intimate and expansive, funny and devastating, and it confirms why Rooney has become one of the most acclaimed literary voices of her generation.

• Sunday Times and Global number one bestseller
• Winner of Novel of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards
• By the internationally acclaimed author of Normal People and Conversations with Friends
• Brand new, unread paperback copy
• Perfect for fans of literary and contemporary fiction
• Makes a thoughtful gift for readers of book club fiction

About the Author

Sally Rooney was born in the west of Ireland in 1991. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta and The London Review of Books. Winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award in 2017, she is the author of Conversations with Friends, Normal People and Beautiful World, Where Are You, and is the editor of the Irish literary journal The Stinging Fly.

Why You'll Love This Book

Sharp, funny and quietly devastating, this is contemporary fiction at its very best. If you loved Normal People, Rooney's latest will pull you in from the first page and stay with you long after the last.

Please Note: Cover design and ISBN reflect the UK edition as shown in the product images.