The book received mixed reviews from Columbia Journal, Air Mail, Brooklyn Mail, The New Republic, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, Star Tribune, Entertainment Weekly, The Economist, New Statesman, The Observer, The Independent, The Nation, Vulture, and iNews. The book also received starred reviews from Booklist, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and Kirkus. It received positive reviews from Slate, the New York Times, The Times, The Irish Times, The Atlantic, NPR, Financial Times, the Harvard Review, the Washington Post, the New Yorker, USA Today, Vox, The New Zealand Herald, The Boston Globe, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Guardian, and InStyle.

Reception īeautiful World, Where Are You was a New York Times and IndieBound bestseller. Steimatzky and Tzomet Sfarim, two Israeli bookstore chains, stopped selling Rooney's work following her decision. Rooney rejected an offer from Modan, an Israeli publisher, to sell Hebrew-language translation rights due to her support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, preferring to sell Hebrew rights in a way that complies with the BDS movement guidelines. īeautiful World was published by Faber and Faber in the United Kingdom, by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the United States, and by Knopf Canada in Canada. The first edition of Beautiful World was illustrated by Manshen Lo, and designed by Jon Gray. In anticipation of its release, Rooney's American publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux distributed branded merchandise, including bucket hats and tote bags, to influencers. On the day it was released, Beautiful World was a bestseller on Amazon. Publication and release īefore Beautiful World 's release in September 2021, advance copies circulated on the internet one sold on eBay for over US$200.

The novel includes substantial epistolary elements, such as emails between Kelleher and Lydon. The title comes from a poem by Friedrich Schiller which Franz Schubert set to music in 1819. īeautiful World 's themes include romance, friendship, precarity, and social class. In The Guardian, Anthony Cummins describes the novel's structure as a 'love quadrangle' between Kelleher and Brady, on the one hand and Lydon and Costigan, on the other. The two other important characters are Kelleher's new lover Felix Brady, who works at a warehouse, and Lydon's friend Simon Costigan, who works for a refugee agency.

In alternating chapters are descriptions of their lives and emails they send each other. The work tells the story of Alice Kelleher, an Irish novelist, and her best friend Eileen Lydon, an editor at a literary magazine. The book was a New York Times and IndieBound bestseller. Beautiful World, Where Are You is a novel by Irish author Sally Rooney.

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