ORIGINAL TITLE: Normal People
AUTHOR: Sally Rooney
TRANSLATOR: Maurizia Balmelli
PUBLISHER: Einaudi Editore
YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 2019
GENRE: Foreign Fictional Novel
RECOMMENDED AGE: Adults
NUMBER OF PAGES: 242
FORMAT: Hardback 14cm x 22cm
LANGUAGE: Italian
ITALIAN DESCRIPTION:
Marianne e Connell si parlano di tutto ma solo all'insaputa di tutti, si frugano i corpi e i sentimenti ma solo di nascosto, come pianeti dalle orbite imprevedibili si girano intorno, fra moti armonici e strazianti collisioni. Cosa impedisce a due ragazzi dei nostri giorni disinvolti di stare insieme in libertà e leggerezza? Gli squilibri di classe e potere? Le <<stelle contrarie>>? O solo l'orrore, e l'attrazione, della normalità? Nell'abbraccio in cui si stringono, però, <<il suo corpo sposa quello di lei come quei materassi che pare facciano bene alla salute>>. E in quel quieto, benefico sostenersi sembra tacere ogni domanda. Sally Rooney ci offre un nuovo, emozionante manuale sentimentale per la nostra modernità.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION:
At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He’s popular and well-adjusted, star of the school soccer team while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her housekeeping job at Marianne’s house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers—one they are determined to conceal. A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years in college, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. Then, as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other. Sally Rooney brings her brilliant psychological acuity and perfectly spare prose to a story that explores the subtleties of class, the electricity of first love, and the complex entanglements of family and friendship.
