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...
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2025-02-20
Betyg 
Nej, det är inte en av de bättre som Sally Rooney skrivit. 450 sidor om två bröder som inte gillar varandra, blir lite för långt. Jag ser i recensionerna att folk gillar den. Jag kanske har missat något? Är glad att jag läst ut den.
Sara Hellberg gillar
2024-12-16
Betyg 
Lika bra som Normala Människor ❤️! Rooney skriver så utelämnande om familj, kärlek och sorg. Hon fångar så mycket komplexitet i sina karaktärer.
