Beautiful World, Where Are You

　　暢銷之作《正常人》作者莎莉．魯尼再次帶來療癒動人故事
青澀微苦的青春、性愛與友誼，訴說千禧世代人們的共同內心
 
　　知名小說家Alice遇見了在大賣場工作的Felix，問對方是否願意和她一起共遊羅馬。而在熱鬧的都柏林擔任文學雜誌小編輯的 Eileen，則正努力地走出情傷，並且回過頭與從小就有好感的青梅竹馬Simon調調情。Alice、Eileen，兩位從大學就是摯友的女孩，即便身處在兩地，也從不間斷地通電子郵件傾訴自己的生活、愛情，以及對當今社會情勢的不安。
 
　　四個年輕人，儘管青春仍然，也無法擺脫無情的生活在後頭不斷追趕。他們渴望彼此，卻又欺騙彼此；他們相聚，卻又分離。他們做著愛，卻又煩惱這一段段性事，同時也擔憂著彼此的友誼關係，以及這個他們生活的世界。他們是否站在被黑暗包圍的唯一光亮角落？他們的世代，會不會親眼見證世界的重大轉變？他們是否仍相信美好世界的可能？莎莉．魯尼利用她見微知著的洞悉能力，再次帶來一個述說著人們如何相愛、如何傷害彼此，充滿哲學與愛情的故事。
　
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　　Beautiful World, Where Are You is a new novel by Sally Rooney, the bestselling author of Normal People and Conversations with Friends.

　　Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood.

　　Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young—but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?

莎莉‧魯尼（Sally Rooney）

　　1991年於西愛爾蘭出生，現居都柏林。

　　畢業於愛爾蘭都柏林三一學院。2017年出版第一部小說《開放式關係》（暫譯）入列《衛報》、《觀察者》等多家媒體評選的年度圖書，擄獲莎拉潔西卡帕克、泰勒絲多位名人推薦。同年，榮獲《泰晤士報》評選年度青年作家獎。2018年以《正常人》入圍布克獎，並獲愛爾蘭圖書獎、英國皇家文學學會安可獎，2019年榮獲英國國家書卷大獎暨小說獎。2019年獲選《時代雜誌》「次世代」百大影響人物。

Sally Rooney is the author of the novels Conversations with Friends and Normal People. She was the winner of the Sunday Times/Peters Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer Award in 2017. In 2018, Conversations with Friends was short-listed for both the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize, and Normal People was the Waterstones Book of the Year, won the Costa Novel Award, and was long-listed for the Booker Prize. Normal People won the Encore Award in 2019. Rooney was the editor of The Stinging Fly in 2018 and a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library from 2019 to 2020. She was nominated for an Emmy for her work on the Hulu/BBC television adaptation of Normal People in 2020.