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Sally Rooney

Normal People

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Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there; they are from very different worlds. When they both earn places at Trinity College in Dublin, a connection that has grown between them lasts long into the following years.
This is an exquisite love story about how a person can change another person's life — a simple yet profound realisation that unfolds beautifully over the course of the novel. It tells us how difficult it is to talk about how we feel and it tells us — blazingly — about cycles of domination, legitimacy and privilege. Alternating menace with overwhelming tenderness, Sally Rooney's second novel breathes fiction with new life.
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  • Ilona Slepchikshared an impression5 years ago
    💞Loved Up
    💧Soppy

    A beautiful and sad story about people who aren’t able to simply explain their feelings to each other.

  • Michelle Wibowoshared an impression4 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    🎯Worthwhile
    🚀Unputdownable
    💧Soppy

    Genuinely loved the book. Fast-paced, characters with personality—each one unique, light enough to be an evening read & heavy enough not too bore me, realistic storyline & conflicts. Overall, a recommendation for those who like contemporary YA.

  • dariabutdariashared an impression4 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    💞Loved Up
    🚀Unputdownable

    so far, the best book of the year. the book that has really left me speechless.

    it’s so naïve and at the same time, a masterpiece.

    a romantic (sometimes fun, but mostly sad) and truthful story about two people who look like real "us". people who have been growing together, not knowing what they really want, often making tremendous mistakes and never regretting about them, falling in love time and again, and endlessly rushing between "being friends-being in relationships-being no friends at all".

Quotes

  • kseniaoschepkovahas quoted5 years ago
    Marianne had the sense that her real life was happening somewhere very far away, happening without her, and she didn’t know if she would ever find out where it was and become part of it.
  • dilara0611has quoted4 years ago
    Marianne had the sense that her real life was happening somewhere very far away, happening without her, and she didn’t know if she would ever find out where it was and become part of it
  • thewindupbirdhas quoted5 years ago
    Is the world such an evil place, that love should be indistinguishable from the basest and most abusive forms of violence?

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