{"product_id":"intermezzo-5487","title":"Intermezzo","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 12px 24px; margin-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px; color: #888;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"display: block; font-size: 10px; letter-spacing: 0.06em; text-transform: uppercase; color: #aaa;\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003eSally Rooney\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px; color: #888;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"display: block; font-size: 10px; letter-spacing: 0.06em; text-transform: uppercase; color: #aaa;\"\u003eGenre\u003c\/span\u003eLiterary Fiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px; color: #888;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"display: block; font-size: 10px; letter-spacing: 0.06em; text-transform: uppercase; color: #aaa;\"\u003eFormat\u003c\/span\u003ePaperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px; color: #888;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"display: block; font-size: 10px; letter-spacing: 0.06em; text-transform: uppercase; color: #aaa;\"\u003ePublisher\u003c\/span\u003eFaber \u0026amp; Faber\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px; color: #888;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"display: block; font-size: 10px; letter-spacing: 0.06em; text-transform: uppercase; color: #aaa;\"\u003eYear\u003c\/span\u003e2024\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px; color: #888;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"display: block; font-size: 10px; letter-spacing: 0.06em; text-transform: uppercase; color: #aaa;\"\u003ePages\u003c\/span\u003e448pp\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eTHE GLOBAL #1 BESTSELLER\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAN \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eIRISH TIMES\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e TOP 100 IRISH BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA BEST BOOK OF 2024 IN THE \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eGUARDIAN, TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, IRISH TIMES, LONDON STANDARD, INDEPENDENT, OBSERVER, NEW STATESMAN, iNEWS, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, THE SKINNY, CITY AM, DAILY MAIL, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAND \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTHE CONVERSATION\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eIntermezzo\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eis perfect ...\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eIs there a better novelist at work right now?'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eObserver\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Her most mature and moving book to date ... I read it in a state of rapture.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'If a perfect Sally Rooney novel exists, this might just be it ... Her best novel yet.'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Rooney has discovered her full literary prowess.'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eIndependent\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom the author of the multimillion-copy bestseller\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNormal People,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ean exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeter 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIvan 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lorien Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":54872957190483,"sku":"9780571365487.0","price":16.98,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1079\/6695\/5859\/files\/71a1GY_3lZL._SL1500.jpg?v=1789203693","url":"https:\/\/lorienbooks.com\/products\/intermezzo-5487","provider":"Lorien Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}