正常人 – Normal People by Sally Rooney

康奈尔和玛丽安在爱尔兰西部一个小镇长大。在学校，康奈尔备受欢迎，玛丽安则被视为怪人，独来独往。然而，一次令人怦然心动的对话，改变了两人的关系和他们今后的人生。

一年后，两人都来到都柏林的圣三一大学念书，在派对中重逢。此时的玛丽安活跃于大学社交圈，康奈尔则成了边缘人，腼腆而缺乏自信。大学数年中，两人各自与他人交往，但似乎总有一种不可抗拒的磁力，将两人彼此拉近。他们如同“一盆土中的两株植物，环绕彼此生长，为了腾出空间而长得歪歪扭扭，形成某种令人难以置信的姿态”。最后在她走向自毁、而他往别处寻找生活的意义之际，他们究竟该如何拯救彼此？人怎样才能改变另一个人，人如何才能说出内心感受让别人真切感知？

继《聊天记录》之后，萨莉•鲁尼在她的第二部小说《正常人》中，用她出色的心理描写和温柔细腻的文笔，探索微妙的阶层关系，初恋的激情、脆弱与危机，家庭关系和友谊复杂的纠缠，为当代小说注入新生力量。

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 acuity and perfectly spare prose to a story that explores the subtleties of class, the electricity of first love, and the complex entanglements of family and friendship.

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