Beautiful world, where are you?

Beautiful World, Where Are You?

"We spend our lives trying to discern and live by these principles,
Try to love instead of hate, that is the most important thing on earth."
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Novelist Alice moves to an unfamiliar seaside town on her own, meets blue-collar worker Felix through a dating app, and invites him to accompany her to Rome to promote her new book. In Dublin, her best friend Irene, fresh from a breakup, starts dating Simon, a childhood friend.
Alice, Felix, Irene, and Simon—all over thirty, still young, yet life slowly catches up with them. They yearn for each other, keep secrets from one another, break up and reunite. They fret over love and sex, friendship, and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before nightfall, witnessing something? Can they believe there's still a beautiful world out there?
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Editor's Recommendation:
★ Sally Rooney, a talented female writer born in the 1990s, is making a blockbuster new work following "Chat Logs" and "Normal People" ★ Focusing on the confusion and frustration of young people in the post-epidemic era, with the deterioration of the economy, politics, and ecological environment ★ The confused youth of the previous generation had their own Salinger, their "The Catcher in the Rye", and their "On the Road". This generation has its own spokesperson - Sally Rooney ★ Topped the New York Times Novel Ranking, "American Douban" Goodreads 2021 Best Novel of the Year, sold 40,000 copies in 5 days after its launch in the UK, and is a favorite reading for young people from all over the world

2022-06-01

上海译文出版社

Archipelago Books

303

9787532790227