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Normal People by Sally Rooney, which traces the on-off relationship between Connell and Marianne as they go through high school and then university together. Their relationship is threatened first by Connell’s reluctance to be seen with Marianne, who is an outcast at their school, and then by the class divide between them, but their connection never truly fades and they repeatedly find themselves drawn back together. As the follow-up to Sally Rooney’s acclaimed debut novel
Conversations with Friends, Normal People was one of the most anticipated books of 2018. It was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2018 and won ‘Best Novel’ at the Costa Book Awards in the same year.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019
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SALLY ROONEY
IRISH NOVELIST
Born in Castlebar in 1991.Notable works:Mr Salary (2016), short storyConversations with Friends (2017), novelNormal People (2018), novelSally Rooney is an Irish novelist who was born in Castlebar, County Mayo in 1991. She grew up with two siblings and moved to Dublin to study English at Trinity College, where she was elected a scholar and participated in debating; she went on to participate in the European University Debating Championships in 2013. After her undergraduate degree in English, she completed a Masters in American Literature. She currently lives in Dublin.
Rooney wrote her first novel, Conversations with Friends, while completing her Masters degree. After an auction for the publication rights, this debut novel was published in 2017 and nominated for a slew of prizes. The novel was well received by critics and Rooney herself was hailed as a remarkable addition to the modern Irish canon, being dubbed the “Salinger for the Snapchat generation” by her editor at Faber & Faber. In the same year her short story Mr Salary was nominated for the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award.
NORMAL PEOPLE
A DUAL-PERSPECTIVE NOVEL
Genre: modern fictionReference edition: Rooney, S. (2018) Normal People. London: Faber & Faber.1stedition: 2018Themes: class, relationships, Irish society, domestic violence, university educationNormal People tells the story of Connell and Marianne, two students (who move from high school to university over the course of the novel) who have an on-off romantic relationship. The novel was the highly anticipated follow-up to Rooney’s critically adored debut Conversations with Friends. Normal People cemented Rooney’s status as a first-class writer, and attracted accolades including ‘Irish Novel of the Year’ at the Irish Book Awards and ‘Best Novel of the Year’ at the Costa Book Awards. The novel was also named the ‘Waterstones Book of the Year’ and was longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize.
Normal People is written in the third person, and alternates between the perspectives of the two characters. The chapters are dated and distributed sporadically over the characters’ student timeline, with gaps in between that generally range between a few weeks and a few months in duration (although a few are much shorter). The novel alternates between the use of the present tense (when describing the events of the eponymous chapter date) and the past tense, in which the reader is caught up with the events of periods that fall between the dated chapters.
