Category: Adults, General Fiction
Language: EnglishKeywords: Fiction Grief Love
Written by Sally Rooney
Format: M4B
This program is read by actor Ãanna Hardwicke, known for his role in Hulu’s Normal People.
An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and familyâbut especially loveâfrom 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 thirtiesâsuccessful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their fatherâs death, heâs medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different womenâhis 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 interludeâa period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.
This program is read by actor Ãanna Hardwicke, known for his role in Hulu’s Normal People.
An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and familyâbut especially loveâfrom 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 thirtiesâsuccessful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their fatherâs death, heâs medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different womenâhis 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 interludeâa period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.