{"product_id":"beautiful-world-where-are-you-sally-rooney","title":"Beautiful World, Where Are You – Sally Rooney","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe third novel from Sally Rooney — the voice of a generation — and her most expansive yet. \u003cem\u003eBeautiful World, Where Are You\u003c\/em\u003e is a quietly devastating story about friendship, love, and the search for meaning when the world feels like it’s coming apart at the seams.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlice, a novelist freshly out of a breakdown, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and impulsively asks him to travel to Rome with her. Back in Dublin, her best friend Eileen is nursing a breakup and slipping back into something complicated with Simon, a man she’s known since childhood. Across emails and encounters, the four of them circle questions of beauty, purpose, and whether it’s still possible to live well in an uncertain world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRooney’s signature quiet intimacy is here in full force — the sharp dialogue, the charged silences, the way her characters think too much and feel everything. Trending for its millennial ennui, friends-to-lovers tension, and the philosophical emails that divide readers but linger long after the last page. The line that captures it all: \u003cem\u003e\"We’re all just passing through the world, trying to love it.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for fans of \u003cstrong\u003eNormal People\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eConversations with Friends\u003c\/strong\u003e by Rooney, \u003cstrong\u003eSorrow and Bliss\u003c\/strong\u003e by Meg Mason, and \u003cstrong\u003eMy Year of Rest and Relaxation\u003c\/strong\u003e by Ottessa Moshfegh. A natural bundle with other Rooney titles for collectors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA paperback (2021, Faber \u0026amp; Faber) in Very Good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jhb Preloved Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45061450662003,"sku":null,"price":75.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/3357\/6307\/files\/rn-image_picker_lib_temp_7864d3bd-de61-415c-bd54-fa5c8e4af9c5.jpg?v=1780397592","url":"https:\/\/jhbprelovedbooks.co.za\/products\/beautiful-world-where-are-you-sally-rooney","provider":"Jhb Preloved Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}