Normal People -

Sally Rooney

Hogarth Press

2019

273 páginas

9h 6m

ISBN-13: 9781984822178

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.

Resenhas (1177)

4 (Muito bom)

O livro foi muito chato, não vou mentir. eu fiquei com muita raiva das escolhas dos personagens, como eles agiam e achei muito irritante algumas partes desses aspectos. mas aí eu comecei a entender connell e marianne.. os seus pensamentos e os motivos das escolhas, até mesmo me identifiquei com algumas coisas.
porém uma coisa que me irritou de fato foi a falta de comunicação entre os dois, eles se mostraram com uma intimidade extraordinária mas que falhava quando era preciso conversar, ao meu ver dois personagens que se entendiam tão bem, deveriam saber se comunicar, mas talvez isso seja o que acontece conosco e por entender, mesmo me fazendo ter muita raiva, estou dando 4 estrelas para esse livro.