{"product_id":"9780735281844","title":"Intermezzo","description":"\u003cb\u003eTHE INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER \u003ci\u003e• \u003c\/i\u003eShortlisted for the British Book Awards 2025 • Shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year \u003ci\u003e•\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eFoyles Book of the Year • Best Book of the Year:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e The\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker • The New York Times • The Globe and Mail • TIME • The Winnipeg Free Press • The Guardian • The Independent • \u003c\/i\u003eNPR • \u003ci\u003eDazed • VOX • People • Kirkus Reviews • Publishers Weekly • \u003c\/i\u003eAn exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeter 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIvan 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor 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.","brand":"Sally Rooney","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":49979264368997,"sku":"9780735281844","price":25.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0851\/2651\/2997\/files\/BNCImageAPI_1b9ab3b9-379b-4919-b415-da54ef5a0fd1.jpg?v=1759417245","url":"https:\/\/www.commonplaceingersoll.ca\/products\/9780735281844","provider":"Commonplace Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}