Gente Normal / Normal People

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Sally Rooney: Gente Normal / Normal People (Spanish language, 2020, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial)

256 pages

Spanish language

Published July 27, 2020 by Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial.

ISBN:
978-84-397-3631-8
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4 stars (11 reviews)

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 …

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A story of two young people's trouble with recognizing their bond

4 stars

This book came out not long after Conversations with Friends but it seemed to have a quite different structure, concentrating on the two main characters, Marianne and Connell. At the beginning they are in their secondary school days and first come together, they leave their small town to go to Dublin to attend the same college where they drift apart a few times, achieve their successes, get into trouble, and by the end come to a new understanding of their situation. Like the earlier book and the book Beautiful World, Where Are You? a few years later, this book wove in ideas about economics and politics to make one think about how these affected the ways the characters behave. But I think it was more psychological considerations such as childhood trauma, depression, and a will to self-harm that played even greater roles in shaping them. The other characters appearing, the …

No era para mí

1 star

Sin duda no era un libro para mí. No sé cómo llamó mi atención y me llevó a leerlo, pero no me ha gustado nada, ni el estilo de escritura, que no aporta nada por quitar guiones sino que dificulta la lectura y la llena de incisos, sin ningún porqué. Personajes planos, incompetentes emocionalmente, que no atraen en nada, con los que me ha resultado imposible empatizar, que intercalan reflexiones semiprofundas que no encajan para nada con ellos. Una trama inverosímil que no aporta nada.

Lo más profundo que he sacado es esto que resume mis sensaciones con la novela: "Nada de lo que Connell había hecho en ellas parecía haber dejado huella en él. Todo aquel viaje transcurría como una serie de cortometrajes, proyectados una única vez, y al terminar tenía la sensación de saber de lo que iban, pero ningún recuerdo preciso del argumento. Recuerda ver cosas por …

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