Beautiful World, Where Are You is a novel by Sally Rooney that follows the lives of four friends—Alice, Eileen, Simon, and Felix—as they navigate complex relationships, personal struggles, and questions about the meaning of life and beauty in the modern world.
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Book Blurb
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 sex, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?
About the Author
Sally Rooney is an Irish author known for her critically acclaimed novels exploring themes of youth, love, and societal dynamics.
Born in County Mayo, Ireland, Sally Rooney went on to study English literature at Trinity College Dublin. Her work has appeared in Granta, The Dublin Review, The White Review, The Stinging Fly, and the Winter Pages anthology.
Her debut novel, Conversations with Friends, received widespread praise for its insightful portrayal of relationships and millennial life.
Not only has she written New York Times bestselling books, Sally Rooney was also the editor of the Stinging Fly in 2018 and a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library from 2019 to 2020.
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