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Format: Hardcover Language: English ISBN: 0374602638 ISBN13: 9780374602635 Release Date: September 2024 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Length: 464 Pages Weight: 1.00 lbs. Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.3" An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family--but especially love--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 Margare