--- product_id: 157071959 title: "Normal People: The multimillion copy bestseller" price: "2236 som" currency: KGS in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.kg/products/157071959-normal-people-the-multimillion-copy-bestseller store_origin: KG region: Kyrgyzstan --- # 135,000+ 4.1-star reviews Top 100 Irish books of 21st century Multimillion bestseller Normal People: The multimillion copy bestseller **Price:** 2236 som **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 📖 Unlock the story that everyone’s talking about — don’t miss out on the book defining a generation! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Normal People: The multimillion copy bestseller - **How much does it cost?** 2236 som with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.kg](https://www.desertcart.kg/products/157071959-normal-people-the-multimillion-copy-bestseller) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **A Defining Generation Read:** Experience the literary phenomenon that shaped a decade and sparked global conversations. - • **Award-Winning Irish Literature:** Own a piece of Ireland’s top 100 books of the 21st century, celebrated worldwide. - • **Perfect for Thoughtful Escapes:** Cancel your plans and immerse yourself in a tender, devastating coming-of-age journey. - • **Critically Acclaimed Bestseller:** Join millions who’ve made this #1 Sunday Times bestseller a must-have on their shelves. - • **Raw & Relatable Emotional Depth:** Dive into a story that captures the complexities of love, identity, and mental health with unflinching honesty. ## Overview Normal People by Sally Rooney is a critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy bestseller hailed as one of the top 100 Irish books of the 21st century. This emotionally raw coming-of-age novel explores complex relationships, mental health, and identity through the lives of Connell and Marianne. With over 135,000 reviews averaging 4.1 stars, it’s a cultural touchstone for millennials craving authentic, thought-provoking literature. ## Description ** Sally Rooney's new novel Intermezzo is available in paperback now ** AN IRISH TIMES TOP 100 IRISH BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY 'The literary phenomenon of the decade.' Guardian 'The book that defined a generation.' Stylist 'A Tube stop-missing, escalator-reading tale.' Evening Standard Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in the west of Ireland, but the similarities end there. In school, Connell is popular and well-liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation - awkward but electrifying - something life-changing begins. Normal People is a story of mutual fascination, friendship and love. It takes us from that first conversation to the years beyond, in the company of two people who try to stay apart but find they can't. 'Tender and devastating.' Guardian 'A book to cancel plans for.' Grazia 'A classic coming-of-age love story.' Vogue Readers love Normal People : ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'An emotional rollercoaster from cover to cover.' Claire ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'It will stay with me for a long time.' Linny ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'The hype is entirely justified.' Caitlin ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ' This is a book to cherish, to keep and be thankful for.' Celestine ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A masterpiece, pure and simple.' Jamie Sally Rooney's book 'Normal People' was a #1 Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2018-12-24 Review: Relatable, touching, moving coming of age love story - 🧡Quoting from the book, literature moves him. One of his professors calls it ‘the pleasure of being touched by great art’. In those words it almost sounds sexual. A most apt quote for the book because you will be moved . . . 🧡A coming of age story about love, relationships,( complicated, many unhealthy and failed) physical intimacy,and desire 🧡A Relatable read for me in many ways Some excerpts i highlighted: 🧡Being alone with her is like opening a door away from normal life and then closing it behind him. 🧡He had just wanted to be normal, to conceal the parts of himself that he found shameful and confusing. 🧡Physically it just felt right, and he understood why people did insane things for physical reasons then. 🧡She has never believed herself fit to be loved by any person. 🧡It’s not like this with other people, she says. 🧡Marianne, he said, I’m not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me. 🧡He always reflexively imagined ways to cause himself extreme injury when he was distressed. It seemed to soothe him briefly, the act of imagining a much worse and more totalising pain than the one he really felt, maybe just the cognitive energy it required, the momentary break in his train of thought, but afterwards he would only feel worse. 🧡to know that she continues loving him, this puts the gift of joy into his day, and for hours he feels nothing but a light-headed happiness. 🧡Cherries hang on the dark-green trees like earrings. 🧡I don’t know what’s wrong with me, says Marianne. I don’t know why I can’t be like normal people. 🧡I don’t know why I can’t make people love me. I think there was something wrong with me when I was born. 🧡He has managed to nurture a fine artistic sensitivity without ever developing any real sense of right and wrong. The fact that this is even possible unsettles Marianne, and makes art seem pointless suddenly. 🧡Life is the thing you bring with you inside your own head 🧡Connell went home that night and read over some notes he had been making for a new story, and he felt the old beat of pleasure inside his body, like watching a perfect goal, like the rustling movement of light through leaves, a phrase of music from the window of a passing car. Life offers up these moments of joy despite everything. 🧡window onto real happiness, though a window she cannot open herself or ever climb through. 🧡Things that happened to her then are buried in the earth of her body. 🧡some huge emptiness in the pit of her being. 🧡Still, he would lie down and die for her at any minute, which is the only thing he knows about himself that makes him feel like a worthwhile person. 🧡That’s the only part of himself he wants to protect, the part that exists inside her. 🧡She was in his power, he had chosen to redeem her, she was redeemed. . . . I read the kindle edition. Content 🚧warning: molestation, depression, suicidal ideation,bullying, Review: Love, Misread and Misfelt. Painfully real. - Normal People by Sally Rooney is one of those books you either love or hate… there’s rarely any middle ground. I personally loved it, largely because I deeply appreciate Sally Rooney’s writing style. It takes real skill to explore such complex emotional themes with this level of subtlety. The novel dives into miscommunication, insecurity, self-doubt, societal pressure and the constant tension between self-perception and reality. It also highlights the emotional literacy gap—how people feel deeply but struggle to express it. Rooney’s restrained yet evocative writing captures the unspoken dynamics between Marianne and Connell with remarkable realism. Their relationship resists traditional romantic ideals- complex, fragile and persistently cyclical- making it feel all the more real. At times, the story feels frustrating… but that frustration is intentional. It’s part of the design, reflecting how complex relationships often unfold. Nothing feels exaggerated or artificial. Instead, it’s raw, intimate and strikingly authentic. Reading it felt less like observing a story and more like living inside it. That’s Sally Rooney’s writing for you. ## Features - A great option for a Book Lover - Great one for reading - Comes in Good condition ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #1,064 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #2 in Travel Writing (Books) #9 in Science Fiction History & Criticism #27 in Contemporary Romance (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.1 out of 5 stars 135,891 Reviews | ## Images ![Normal People: The multimillion copy bestseller - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61nFGO425OL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Relatable, touching, moving coming of age love story *by G***I on 4 August 2026* 🧡Quoting from the book, literature moves him. One of his professors calls it ‘the pleasure of being touched by great art’. In those words it almost sounds sexual. A most apt quote for the book because you will be moved . . . 🧡A coming of age story about love, relationships,( complicated, many unhealthy and failed) physical intimacy,and desire 🧡A Relatable read for me in many ways Some excerpts i highlighted: 🧡Being alone with her is like opening a door away from normal life and then closing it behind him. 🧡He had just wanted to be normal, to conceal the parts of himself that he found shameful and confusing. 🧡Physically it just felt right, and he understood why people did insane things for physical reasons then. 🧡She has never believed herself fit to be loved by any person. 🧡It’s not like this with other people, she says. 🧡Marianne, he said, I’m not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me. 🧡He always reflexively imagined ways to cause himself extreme injury when he was distressed. It seemed to soothe him briefly, the act of imagining a much worse and more totalising pain than the one he really felt, maybe just the cognitive energy it required, the momentary break in his train of thought, but afterwards he would only feel worse. 🧡to know that she continues loving him, this puts the gift of joy into his day, and for hours he feels nothing but a light-headed happiness. 🧡Cherries hang on the dark-green trees like earrings. 🧡I don’t know what’s wrong with me, says Marianne. I don’t know why I can’t be like normal people. 🧡I don’t know why I can’t make people love me. I think there was something wrong with me when I was born. 🧡He has managed to nurture a fine artistic sensitivity without ever developing any real sense of right and wrong. The fact that this is even possible unsettles Marianne, and makes art seem pointless suddenly. 🧡Life is the thing you bring with you inside your own head 🧡Connell went home that night and read over some notes he had been making for a new story, and he felt the old beat of pleasure inside his body, like watching a perfect goal, like the rustling movement of light through leaves, a phrase of music from the window of a passing car. Life offers up these moments of joy despite everything. 🧡window onto real happiness, though a window she cannot open herself or ever climb through. 🧡Things that happened to her then are buried in the earth of her body. 🧡some huge emptiness in the pit of her being. 🧡Still, he would lie down and die for her at any minute, which is the only thing he knows about himself that makes him feel like a worthwhile person. 🧡That’s the only part of himself he wants to protect, the part that exists inside her. 🧡She was in his power, he had chosen to redeem her, she was redeemed. . . . I read the kindle edition. Content 🚧warning: molestation, depression, suicidal ideation,bullying, ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Love, Misread and Misfelt. Painfully real. *by I***S on 13 April 2026* Normal People by Sally Rooney is one of those books you either love or hate… there’s rarely any middle ground. I personally loved it, largely because I deeply appreciate Sally Rooney’s writing style. It takes real skill to explore such complex emotional themes with this level of subtlety. The novel dives into miscommunication, insecurity, self-doubt, societal pressure and the constant tension between self-perception and reality. It also highlights the emotional literacy gap—how people feel deeply but struggle to express it. Rooney’s restrained yet evocative writing captures the unspoken dynamics between Marianne and Connell with remarkable realism. Their relationship resists traditional romantic ideals- complex, fragile and persistently cyclical- making it feel all the more real. At times, the story feels frustrating… but that frustration is intentional. It’s part of the design, reflecting how complex relationships often unfold. Nothing feels exaggerated or artificial. Instead, it’s raw, intimate and strikingly authentic. Reading it felt less like observing a story and more like living inside it. That’s Sally Rooney’s writing for you. ### ⭐⭐⭐ What White People Are Really Like - #MillenialEdition *by A***A on 16 February 2019* So this is what young white people do and this is how they think and this is how they communicate (or fail at communicating) and how their relationships are. This was the takeaway from what is beautifully written angsty-mopey tale of two Howard Roark-ish teenagers (without his clarity of purpose, but with his intelligence) set in Ireland (but it is really a microcosm for any First World White Person country). I'm not trying to be provocatively snarky here - there is a great deal regarding human emotion that is agnostic of culture and society and we do get that here through some beautiful observations and most profound analyses by an extremely talented writer. "How strange to feel herself so completely under the control of another person, but also how ordinary. No one can be independent of other people completely, so why not give up the attempt, she thought, go running in the other direction, depend on people for everything, allow them to depend on you, why not." "This ‘what?’ question seems to him to contain so much: not just the forensic attentiveness to his silences that allows her to ask in the first place, but a desire for total communication, a sense that anything unsaid is an unwelcome interruption between them." "Not for the first time Marianne thinks 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." But a lot of this book was quite educational (if that's the right word) for me about the 'class' struggles, the sublimated impact of Modern Family lite, the unsaid rules, etiquette and expectations of teenage relationships, the pressures & manner of 'fitting-in', in another part of the world which despite the influence of Hollywood & English-language books over three decades still acted as a bit of an eye opener. Also the long rambling descriptions of making yourself a cup of tea and drinking sessions in colleges and wandering the supermarket aisles are probably what lets you peak into life in another world. "Marianne goes inside and comes back out again with another bottle of sparkling wine, and one bottle of red. Niall starts unwrapping the wire on the first bottle and Marianne hands Connell a corkscrew. Peggy starts clearing people's plates. Connell unpeels the foil from the top of a bottle as Jamie leans over and says something to Marianne. He sinks the screw into the cork and twists it downwards. Peggy takes his plate away and stacks it with the others" "The kettle comes to the boil. Lorraine sweeps the line of hairpins into the palm of her hand, closes her fist around them and pockets them. She gets up then, fills the cup of tea, adds milk, and puts the bottle back in the fridge. He watches her." Unlike a lot of folks who don't seem to have liked the deadpan, present tense-using, no quotation-marks writing style - I quite liked that and thought it wasn't unnecessarily descriptive of the background scenery as many literary novels (of which set this book is a part of with a Booker nomination and everything else) are wont to be. My bigger disconnect was with the inability to connect with the two central characters and understand their IMO pig-headed actions and decisions. Actually even though after all the insight we have, I don't think I understand their emotions of intense longing, complete depression, ability to switch on-and-off in relationships which are based on some magical other-worldly connections. Surely one would expect more rational decision making and clearer communication from intelligent human beings and awareness of a world outside their bubble? This is alluded to once in the book as well: "But that was their world then. Their feelings were suppressed so carefully in everyday life, forced into smaller and smaller spaces, until seemingly minor events took on insane and frightening significance." This line above kind of sums up what this whole book is about. Sure stories are always about people but there has to be something plausible, connectable, interesting, less tedious? So now, trying to summarise more to put my thoughts in order : - Did I enjoy reading it? I guess, yes - it is very readable - Would I recommend it? I think I would even if it's just for the writing style - Would I read another book by the author? 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