EAN: 9780062968746

EXCITING TIMES - NAOISE DOLAN GEBUNDEN

?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 A RECOMMENDED BOOK FROM:The New York Times Book Review * Vogue *
TIME * Marie Claire * Elle * O  the Oprah Magazine * The Washington Post * Esquire * Harper's
Bazaar * Bustle * PopSugar * Refinery 29 * LitHub * Debutiful 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. Julian is 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. Enter Edith. 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 Times is 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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