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My favorite novel this year was Sally Rooney's Intermezzo. I've always liked but never loved her books. Hear that when I say Intermezzo is the most literary novel I've read in years, the most concerned with the poetics of the language and the most successful at doing so. It's a graceful, mood-heavy 448 pages, a brick full of perfect description and characters so believable it's hard to separate them from your own lived reality. I ask anyone who didn't like the earlier books to go into this one with an open heart.

Intermezzo is a book that's come after reading and studying Ulysses then doing a similar thing without all the mud and varnish. It calls back (actually does, the end notes confirm) to Hamlet, the Wasteland, Wittgenstein, and Philip Larkin (among others).

It never plays tricks on you. The reader isn't led along by constructed soap opera drama or the emotional manipulation we often see in big league mainstream novels. It's also not at all transgressive for the sake of doing so like a lot of small press novels (which is its own form of manipulation, and cheaper. It's easy to shock and very hard to be great). Intermezzo is a clear-eyed, moving, accurate portrait of love, grief, and family (and a keen dissection of monogamy).

This isn't a book review. I'm not a critic. This is just a friendly request to put aside any pretensions you might have about the entity that is SALLY ROONEY LITERARY CELEBRITY, and disregard books of hers you might not have liked in the past, and let this quiet, slow, beautiful story do its work.

There are so many things dancing for your attention from all corners it can be hard to know in which direction to look and for how long. Our time is divided more and more every day and I don't see much hope for recovery. If all signs pointing to darkness lead where they've promised, we are in for a bad time in the coming year. Where do we look and for how long? I won't promise any solutions and the book doesn't either (it's not that sort of novel), but this much I know on Friday, December 26th, 2025: Intermezzo is worth your time.

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Intermezzo | Sally Rooney (Review in English)

I’m so happy because I’m going to write my review about a book that has released a year ago, September 2024 and I didn’t manage to buy it then because there was a lack of this book between January and May of 2024. The book has the title “Intermezzo” and its author is the beloved Sally Rooney. I read a year ago that almost when the book released for the first time at bookshops, It was the most…

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Reading Sally Rooney’s books just to feel something :)

I finished Normal People last year, currently on half reading Intermezzo.

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Sally Rooney puts it this way in her book, Normal People:

“…cruelty does not only hurt the victim, but the perpetrator also, and maybe more deeply and more permanently. You learn nothing very profound about yourself simply by being bullied; but by bullying someone else you learn something you can never forget."

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Profil Sally Rooney, Penulis yang Vokal Dukung Pembebasan Palestina (Tempo.co)

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Nama Sally Rooney semakin berkibar di panggung sastra dunia. Pada 24 September 2024, penulis asal Irlandia itu merilis novel keempatnya, Intermezzo. Sebagai suara dari generasi millennial, Sally dikenal karena kemampuannya menggambarkan ketidakpastian ekonomi dan emosi yang menghantui anak muda. Novel debutnya, Conversations With Friends (2017), disusul Normal People (2018) dan Beautiful World, Where Are You (2021), telah membuatnya diakui sebagai penulis berbakat.

Dua novelnya bahkan telah diadaptasi menjadi serial televisi. Conversations With Friends tayang pada 2022, sementara Normal People tayang pada 2020. Dalam Intermezzo, Sally beralih dari protagonis perempuan yang biasa ia angkat dan memilih menjelajahi kehidupan dua saudara laki-laki—Ivan dan Peter—yang menghadapi duka setelah kematian ayah mereka. Ia mengeksplorasi tema kehilangan, penyesalan, dan refleksi diri.

Sikap Politik dan Dukungan Sally Rooney untuk Palestina

Perhatian pada Sally tidak hanya soal karya-karyanya. Ia mengklaim dirinya feminis dan marxis. Sikap politiknya–terutama dukungan terhadap Palestina, juga vokal disuarakan. Terbaru, dalam acara peluncuran Intermezzo di Southbank Centre, London, 26 September 2024, ia memulai dengan pidato terkait krisis di Palestina.

Sally menggambarkan kampanye militer terhadap Palestina sebagai ‘pembunuhan massal dan kehancuran struktural’. Ia bahkan mengkritik dukungan dari Uni Eropa dan Inggris. Sally menyoroti jumlah korban yang terus meningkat, lebih dari 40.000 jiwa telah tewas sejak 7 Oktober 2023, dan hampir 17.000 di antaranya adalah anak-anak. “Kita sedang menyaksikan genosida yang tengah berlangsung,” ujarnya.

Ia juga mengkritik perluasan aksi militer Israel ke Lebanon, menyebut bahwa kematian sipil di Palestina, Israel, dan Lebanon adalah tragedi besar yang memiliki akar dalam pendudukan ilegal Israel atas Palestina, dan sistem apartheid yang diterapkan terhadap rakyat Palestina. Pada 2021, Sally juga menolak tawaran penerbitan dalam bahasa Ibrani dari penerbit Israel untuk novel Beautiful World, Where Are You. Penulis berusia 33 tahun itu menjelaskan bahwa penolakannya adalah bentuk dukungan terhadap gerakan Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) yang pro-Palestina. “Saya tidak dapat menerima kontrak baru dengan perusahaan Israel yang tidak secara tegas menjauhkan diri dari apartheid dan mendukung hak-hak rakyat Palestina yang ditetapkan oleh PBB,” ungkapnya.

Latar Belakang Sally Rooney

Sally Rooney, lahir pada 20 Februari 1991 di Castlebar, Irlandia, telah mencuri perhatian dunia sastra sejak debutnya dengan Conversations with Friends (2017). Latar belakang keluarganya—sang ayah bekerja di perusahaan telekomunikasi dan ibunya mengelola pusat seni—telah membentuk minatnya pada sastra sejak kecil. Setelah menempuh studi Sastra Inggris di Trinity College Dublin, Sally mulai menulis dengan serius.

Gaya tulisannya yang minimalis, dialog cerdas, serta kemampuan menggali psikologi karakter muda yang kompleks membuatnya unik. Sikap politik Sally, yang menekankan keadilan sosial dan solidaritas, tercermin kuat dalam karyanya. Bagi dia, sastra adalah medium moral, bukan sekadar estetika.

Sumber: https://www.tempo.co/teroka/profil-sally-rooney-penulis-yang-vokal-dukung-pembebasan-palestina-4951

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Love and Hope in Sally Rooney's Intermezzo

In Intermezzo by Sally Rooney, we meet Peter and Ivan Koubek as they deal with their father's death and try to find love. This story is all about relationships, hope, and the little things that make life better.Read the full article on News Arena India.