Intermezzo (edición en español) (Spanish Edition)

Sally Rooney's new novel follows two brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek, who share little in common despite their family ties. Peter, in his early thirties, is a prominent Dublin lawyer with an outwardly composed appearance. Following his father's death, he struggles to manage his chaotic personal life, taking medication to sleep while maintaining romantic relationships with two very different women: Sylvia, his longtime first love, and Naomi, a university student with a casual approach to life. Ivan, twenty-two years old, is a reserved chess player with a rigid demeanor and limited emotional expressiveness. He views himself as the opposite of his older brother, whom he considers superficial and talkative. Days after their father's funeral, Ivan meets Margaret, a woman fourteen years his senior, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined. Intermezzo explores an interval in the lives of these two grieving brothers and the people they love—a period marked by desire, desperation, and possibility. The novel examines how much a life can contain without breaking.