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Beautiful World, Where Are You

Sally Rooney

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Beautiful World, Where Are You

by Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Beautiful World, Where Are You

Four lives, one beautiful-world question

Alice, Felix, Eileen and Simon navigate desire, friendship and self-delusion. From Dublin to Rome, their relationships collide with adult realities. Sally Rooney’s bestseller won Novel of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards.

  • British Book Award Nominee for Fiction (2022)
  • Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction (2021)
  • Europese Literatuurprijs Nominee for Longlist (2022)
  • Irish Book Awards for Eason novel (2021)
  • Writers' Prize Nominee for Longlist (2022)
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Beautiful World, Where Are You

by Sally Rooney
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ISBN: 9780571365449
Author: Sally Rooney
Publisher: Faber & Faber Limited
Date of Publication: 2023-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Romance, Contemporary, Literary Fiction
Goodreads rating: 3.52
(rated by 520147 readers)

Description

*The Sunday Times and Global number one bestseller**Winner of Novel of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards**A Book of the Year in The Times, the Guardian, the Irish Times and the Financial Times*Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a 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 worry about sex and friendship and the times they live in. Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?
 

Four lives, one beautiful-world question

Alice, Felix, Eileen and Simon navigate desire, friendship and self-delusion. From Dublin to Rome, their relationships collide with adult realities. Sally Rooney’s bestseller won Novel of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards.

  • British Book Award Nominee for Fiction (2022)
  • Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction (2021)
  • Europese Literatuurprijs Nominee for Longlist (2022)
  • Irish Book Awards for Eason novel (2021)
  • Writers' Prize Nominee for Longlist (2022)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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