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//《正常人》作者 Sally Rooney 2024最新力作//
//一段關於悲傷、愛與家庭的動人故事//
截然不同的兄弟倆，父親的葬禮重新成為兩人命運的相交點。
哥哥 Peter 年近三十，在都柏林是個小有名氣的律師。無懈可擊的他，在父親過世後，在不為人知的深夜輾轉難眠，不得不開始依賴藥物。看似完美情人，卻陷入理不清的情感掙扎—初戀的曾經美好，還是女大生的青春活力？
弟弟 Ivan 年僅二二，是個天才西洋棋手。靦腆內向，和哥哥天差地別，而在一場公開棋賽遇上熟女 Margaret 後，Ivan 的生活似乎漾起漣漪。
在弔喪期的兄弟兩人與他們所愛的人之間，是基於悲傷，還是真正遇見愛情，亦或者是受慾望蒙蔽？這樣的關係，是否就像間奏曲，在人生的樂譜與樂譜之間，短暫存在罷了？
𝘼𝙣 𝙚𝙭𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙢𝙤𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙜𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙛, 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙛𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙮, 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙜𝙡𝙤𝙗𝙖𝙡 𝙥𝙝𝙚𝙣𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙤𝙣 𝙎𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙍𝙤𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙮.
Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.
Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women—his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.
Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.
For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude—a period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.
