Intermezzo

Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties - successful, competent and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father's death, he's medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women - his enduring first love Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude - a period of desire, despair and possibility - a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.

In afara de faptul ca sunt frati, Peter si Ivan Koubek par sa aiba putine in comun. Peter este un avocat din Dublin la treizeci de ani - de succes, competent si aparent inatacabil. Dar, in urma mortii tatalui lor, el isi face medicamente pentru a adormi si se straduieste sa-si gestioneze relatiile cu doua femei foarte diferite - prima sa dragoste de durata, Sylvia, si Naomi, o studenta pentru care viata este o gluma lunga. Ivan are douazeci de ani. -sahist competitiv in varsta de doi ani.