Intermezzo (Édition française)

"According to Buddhists, attachment is the source of all suffering. We cling to what we have, to what we've had, to the life we've known, to the few people and places we've truly loved, and we refuse to let them go." Ivan and Peter, two brothers estranged by the years, reunite after their father's death. Ivan, twenty-two, is a brilliant chess player, solitary and frustrated. Peter, a renowned lawyer from Dublin, is a thirty-something with multiple conquests. Both experience perilous loves during this delicate time of mourning, an interlude in life where fragility does not exclude adventure. The author of Normal People captures here with rare acuity the complexity of feelings and desires, the power of fraternal bonds, and new ways of forming relationships.