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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there; they are from very different world

《正常人》莎莉魯尼處女作《聊天紀錄》登上小螢幕“[A] cult-hit . . . [a] sharply realistic comedy of adultery and friendship.”—Entertainment Weekly WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES (UK) YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY VOGUE AND SLATE AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BUZZFEED AND ELLEFrances is a coolheaded and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance one night, they meet a well-known photographer, and as the girls are then gradually drawn into her world, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman’s sophisticated home and handsome husband, Nick. But however amusing Frances and Nick’s flirtation seems at first, it begins to give way to a strange—and then painful—intimacy.Written with gemlike precision and marked by a sly sense of humor, Conversations with Friends is wonderfully alive to the pleasures a

千禧時代的代言人──莎莉‧魯尼最新作品《美麗的世界，你在哪裡》原文書。四名即將踏入三十歲的年輕人的命運故事…我們要在哪裡生活，要過哪一種生活？今天人們還能相信存在一個美麗的世界嗎？‘Beautiful World, Where Are You is Rooney’s best novel.’ THE TIMES*The Sunday Times and Global number one bestseller**Winner of Novel of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards**A Book of the Year in The Times, the Guardian, the Irish Times and the Financial Times*‘A tour de force.’ Anne Enright, Guardian‘Rooney’s best novel yet.’ Brandon Taylor, New York Times‘Get ready to have your heart broken all over again.’ Red‘The book moved me to tears more than once.’ The TimesAlice, 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 worry about sex and friendship and the times th