'Beautiful World, Where Are You' (2021) is the third book by the young Irish writer Sally Rooney, whom critics call 'the voice of the millennial generation.' The first, 'Conversations with Friends' (2017), and the second, 'Normal People' (2018), were, without exaggeration, phenomenal successes with both readers and literary critics.
Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are searching for love in the face of an extremely uncertain future - their own and that of all humanity.
They also write to each other emails in which they discuss life, art, history, politics, share anxious thoughts about the unenviable fate of planet Earth, interspersed with details of their romantic relationships...
This is a book about love, about friendship, about the search for the meaning of life and growing up in a world that is heading full speed towards the abyss.