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“This debut novel about an Irish expat millennial teaching English and finding romance in Hong Kong is half Sally Rooney love triangle, half glitzy Crazy Rich Asians high living—and guaranteed to please.”—Vogue
AN ANTICIPATED BOOK FROM:
Vogue * Elle * O, the Oprah Magazine * Esquire * Harper's Bazaar * PopSugar * LitHub
An intimate, bracingly intelligent debut novel about a millennial Irish expat who becomes entangled in a love triangle with a male banker and a female lawyer
Ava, newly arrived in Hong Kong from Dublin, spends her days teaching English to rich children.
Julianis a banker. A banker who likes to spend money on Ava, to have sex and discuss fluctuating currencies with her. But when she asks whether he loves her, he cannot say more than "I like you a great deal."
EnterEdith. A Hong Kong–born lawyer, striking and ambitious, Edith takes Ava to the theater and leaves her tulips in the hallway. Ava wants to be her—and wants her.
And then Julian writes to tell Ava he is coming back to Hong Kong... Should Ava return to the easy compatibility of her life with Julian or take a leap into the unknown with Edith?
Politically alert, heartbreakingly raw, and dryly funny,Exciting Timesis thrillingly attuned to the great freedoms and greater uncertainties of modern love. In stylish, uncluttered prose, Naoise Dolan dissects the personal and financial transactions that make up a life—and announces herself as a singular new voice.
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NAOISE DOLAN s-a născut în Dublin. Scrie ficțiune, eseuri și critică literară, articolele sale fiind publicate în The London Review of Books, The Guardian și Vogue. Vremuri interesante (Exciting Times, 2020; Humanitas Fiction, 2022), romanul ei de debut, a fost nominalizat la Women’s Prize 2021, Comedy Women in Print Prize 2021, International Dylan Thomas Prize 2021, și a fost finalist al Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award și Waterstones Book of the Year în 2020. În 2023, Naoise Dolan a publicat Fericitul cuplu (The Happy Couple; Humanitas Fiction, 2024), roman primit cu elogii din partea criticilor și a publicului și nominalizat la Polari Book Prize în 2024.
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Aoife McMahon
