Are You Happy Now (pocket, eng)

'An eerie, fascinating, nihilistic triumph' Heather Darwent-----At a New York City Wedding, on a sweltering summer night, four people are trying to get their lives started.Yun has everything he's ever wanted, but somehow it's never enough.Emory is finally making her mark, but feels the shame more than the success.Andrew just wants to be honest, but had lied to himself his whole life.Fin can't resist falling in love, but can't help wrecking it all either.Then the four of them watch as one of the guests sits down and never gets back up. Soon it's happening everywhere. Is it an illness or a choice?Because how can anyone be happy in a world where the only choice is to feel everything - or nothing at all?An intensely compulsive novel for anyone who has ever felt hopeful and helpless in one breath, ARE YOU HAPPY NOW is about how you keep living when the world is on fire. Perfect for fans of Emily John St. Mandel's Station Eleven, Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, Patricia Lockwood's Nobody is Talking About This and Naomi Alderman's The Power.-----'Such a brilliant concept, perfectly executed' Araminta Hall, Hidden Depths'Furious and tender . . . cuts to the core of modern life' Jessica Moor, Keeper'A compelling meditation on fear, hope and grief' The Bookseller'Yun, Emory, Andrew & Fin buried themselves into my heart' Nikki Smith, The Beach Party'Extraordinary' Emily St John Mandel, Station Eleven'One of those books you can't stop reading, but don't want to end' TM Logan, The Holiday'Dark, compelling, original' CJ Tudor, The Burning Girls'Compulsively readable' Daily Telegraph Format Pocket Omfång 352 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Penguin Books Ltd. Utgivningsdatum 2023-11-02 ISBN 9780241992630