Sally Rooney has a brand new novel, ‘Intermezzo,’ popping out within the fall
NEW YORK — Sally Rooney could have a brand new novel out this fall, “Intermezzo,” a narrative of affection, household and grief centered round two brothers.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux introduced Thursday that the novel, the Irish writer’s fourth, might be printed Sept. 24.
“Since I started work on this novel a number of years in the past, its characters and their relationships have turn into an necessary a part of my life,” Rooney mentioned in a press release. “I hope that I’ve accomplished them some justice in writing the guide, and that they could discover a place within the lives of readers too.”
Rooney, 33, has been a printed novelist for lower than a decade, however is now one of many world’s hottest, celebrated and talked about literary authors. Her novels have offered thousands and thousands of copies and two of them, “Conversations with Associates” and “Regular Individuals,” have been tailored into tv miniseries. Rooney’s most up-to-date guide, “Stunning World, The place Are You,” got here out in 2021.
In line with the writer, “Intermezzo” tells of brothers Peter and Ivan Koubek and the way they deal with the loss of life of their father. Peter is a profitable Dublin lawyer, in his 30s, who’s “medicating himself to sleep and struggling to handle his relationships with two very completely different ladies – his enduring old flame Sylvia, and Naomi, a school pupil for whom life is one lengthy joke.” Ivan, 22, has begun seeing an older lady with a “turbulent” previous.
“For 2 grieving brothers and the folks they love, it is a new interlude — a interval of need, despair and risk — an opportunity to learn how a lot one life would possibly maintain inside itself with out breaking,” the writer’s announcement reads partly.
Mitzi Angel, the president of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, has labored with Rooney on all of her novels, beginning when Angel was writer of the British home Faber & Faber. She remembers first studying Rooney in a London lodge, and considering “That is sharp, that is humorous, that is distinct,” qualities the writer retains, she says.
Requested if she is aware of how Rooney got here up with the concept for “Intermezzo” (the writer’s dad and mom are nonetheless dwelling), Angel mentioned they by no means mentioned it.
“We have been simply very centered on the textual content, and that is all the time been case,” Angel mentioned. “What’s fantastic to me is the conversations we now have. She’s an mental, actually, however she additionally approaches her books in a approach that’s fairly putting. She’s actually guided by her characters. She turns into acquainted with them. She’s bereft when she finishes a novel.”
