![]() ![]() ![]() Anche l’ultimo romanzo di Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You, sta avendo e avrà anche in Italia il successo che merita. The way Rooney designs these conversations demonstrates her understanding of how so many of us think and speak now, in scattered thoughts, toggling between the registers of global catastrophe and personal shortcomings, gossip and political outrage. Faber&Faber ha creato playlist di Spotify per i personaggi del romanzo. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with. Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if hed like to travel to Rome with her. In one chapter, Eileen writes to Alice about how “structural symptoms, like the mass drowning of refugees and the repeated weather disasters triggered by climate change, are beginning to be understood as manifestations of a political crisis.” As she shifts to questioning the very purpose of having children while approaching civilizational collapse, she adds, “I’m probably thinking about all this now because I saw Aidan randomly on the street the other day and immediately had a heart attack and died.” Hyperbolic, dialectical and eerily familiar, these exchanges form entire chapters. Beautiful World, Where Are You is a new novel by Sally Rooney, the bestselling author of Normal People and Conversations with Friends. ![]() In long emails interspersed between the central narrative, Eileen and Alice ruminate about everything from climate change to white privilege, from the history of writing to their ambivalence toward motherhood. ![]()
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