Sally Rooney

"Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young--but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about...

Frances is a cool-headed and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend and comrade-in-arms is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance one night, Frances and Bobbi catch the eye of Melissa, a well-known photographer, and as the girls are then gradually drawn into Melissa's world, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman's sophisticated...

Trinity College Dublin students Frances and Bobby have been friends since high school. At one of the university poetry evenings, they meet Melissa, a famous photographer, and later with her husband Nick, an actor. Despite the fact that Nick and Melissa are much older than Bobby and Frances, friendly relations develop between them. All four spend a lot of time together, mostly talking - discussing art, literature, politics, sex, friendship and, of...

"Dos amigas se acercan a la treintena en ciudades distintas y tras mucho tiempo sin verse. Alice, novelista, conoce a Felix, que trabaja en un almacén, y le pide que la acompañe a Roma para promocionar su último libro. En Dublín, su mejor amiga, Eileen, está superando una ruptura y empieza a flirtear con Simon, un chico al que conoce desde que eran niños. Mientras el verano se acerca, las dos chicas se envían correos electrónicos en los que...

A pesar de ser hermanos, Peter e Ivan Koubek tienen poco en común. Peter, de treinta y pocos, es un carismático y renombrado abogado en Dublín de apariencia inquebrantable. Tras la muerte de su padre, lucha por mantener bajo control su caótica vida personal. Se medica para poder dormir y manejar la relación sentimental que mantiene con dos mujeres muy diferentes: su eterno primer amor, Sylvia, y Naomi, una estudiante universitaria que no se toma...

"Autorka bestsellerowych Normalnych ludzi przedstawia niezwykle poruszającą opowieść o żałobie, miłości i rodzinie. Peter i Ivan Koubekowie są braćmi, ale poza tym faktem łączy ich niewiele. Peter jest trzydziestokilkuletnim prawnikiem z Dublina - przebojowym, kompetentnym i pozornie niezwyciężonym. Jednak po śmierci ojca nie może zasnąć bez leków i z trudem podtrzymuje relacje z dwiema bardzo różnymi kobietami: Sylvią, swoją...

"At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He's popular and well-adjusted, star of the school football team, while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her job at Marianne's house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers--one they are determined to conceal. A year later, they're both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her...