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Intermezzo: A Novel

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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | A National Indie Bestseller Short- listed for the An Post Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year Finalist for the Barnes and Noble Book of the Year Named a Best Book of the Year and a Critics’ Pick by The New York Times Named an Essential Read by The New Yorker Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, Financial Times, Vogue, The Guardian, Harper’s Bazaar, Vox, The Times (UK), Apple Books, and more A USA Today, People, and Associated Press Top 10 Book of the Year One of Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2024 One of Chicago Public Library’s Favorite Books of the Year An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family―but especially love―from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney. Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter 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. Ivan 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. For 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. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Farrar, Straus and Giroux


Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 24, 2024


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Print length ‏ : ‎ 464 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0374602638


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 35


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.8 x 1.45 x 8.55 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #4,781 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #55 in Family Life Fiction (Books) #141 in Coming of Age Fiction (Books) #170 in Literary Fiction (Books)


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Top Amazon Reviews

    • WOW! I love a great novel of redemption!
Such a rich read, with mirrored narratives worthy of a skilled craftsman. Loved the novel and how the complexity reveals imagined fears and traditions analyzed and humanity evolved. Joyful and oh, so, current, modern.
Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2025 by K. Jones
    • Well-written, but difficult to read
While I really enjoyed Intermezzo, it wasn’t my favorite of Sally Rooney’s novels. For some context, Sally Rooney is my favorite contemporary author. Normal People definitely stands out as her best novel, although I also loved Beautiful World. For Intermezzo, while the character development was still strong, I found the characters to be way less likable, almost to the point where reading the book became challenging. Ivan, while at times, endearing, comes across as insensitive and overly stubborn, with no desire to grow or improve. While the novel has some very touching moments and was beautifully written, the character’s made it difficult for me to love the book. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2025 by Divya Desai
    • Eh
My book club read this. No one liked it very much. The characters and their conversations are very inauthentic. More pretentious than true to life.
Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2025 by Christina Robinson
    • from start to finish
The pain we inflict on the people we love! I cried my eyes out for the last 5 minutes of this beautifully wrought novel with the perfect, longed-for ending.
Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2025 by Rob
    • Complicated Relationships
Started out thinking I wouldn't like it, but got pulled in. Very thought provoking! Grief affects us in ways we don't recognize, and makes us vulnerable. It also forces us to evaluate our relationships and see our own foibles.
Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2025 by bren
    • Narrator exceptional.
Stellar narration! I generally cannot abide this author’s writing but the fabulous narrator made me love every word (and it seemed like a surplus of words). Delightful listen.
Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2025 by L.A. Peep
    • A Stunning Achievement
Looking at Amazon's AI summary of the reviews, I see the not surprising negative comments about this amazing novel from people who think that established norms in prose MUST be followed if one expects to be considered a successful author. Nonsense. I am a former professional writer and lover of good writing and I was just stunned by this book. Rooney has a style that more closely mimics how human beings actually think, and that is just simply genius. I love her structure, I was touched by her powerful development of the characters, and the interaction between them. Just get this book and, with an open mind, read it and be moved by it's beauty. I loved it!!!! ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2025 by American Consumer
    • A Contemporary Romance Novel
Sally Rooney has done something remarkable in restoring a sense of high seriousness to the romance novel. Having read some of the commentary in the press, I was intrigued to learn, among other things, that the two central characters in the book were both male. Even highly accomplished novelists often have trouble showing the perspective of the other sex, and so I wondered how well she would succeed. A little bit to my surpise, she did it as well as any man, in ways almost a bit too well. The brothers Peter and Ivan are depicted intensely in all their psychological complexity. The three major female characters - Sylvia, Peter's wife; Naomi, Peter's girlfriend; Margaret, Ivan's older girlfriend - are also meant to be complex, but they seem more abstract and less vivid than the men. At the beginning of Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffmann, the deluded Hoffmann says that his imagined girlfriend is three women in one: an innocent, a courtesan, and an artist. These are the three major male fantasies, at least in literature and the arts, since at least about the start of the nineteenth century. The lineaments of these, though adapted and a bit disguised, can be discerned respectively in Sylvia, Naomi, and Margaret. The prose of the novel is cryptic, fast moving. It is not only filled with astute psychological observations but also philosophic meditations on the nature of love, such as we find in classic authors such as William Shakespeare and Jane Austen. I became very caught up in the novel and expected to rate it a five (maybe even five plus), but I was very disappointed in the ending. Nothing is actually resolved, from the personal rivalries to the romantic uncertainties. That is not necessarily a flaw in itself, and it may be that these are unresolvable, in which case the novel could end on a tragic note. Instead, having vented their conflicts and resentments, all of the characters are reconciled without any resolution. This not only impresses me as unbelievable. It also senselessly dissipates the drama that Rooney has build up over the previous 400 or so pages. Love ceases to be an existential crisis and becomes a psychological problem to be solved by a therapist, a counselor, or an advice columnist. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2024 by B

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