André Aciman. Norton, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-393-08860-1
Aciman’s stock in trade is nostalgia. In his latest novel (after Eight White Nights), another autobiographical hero, this one unnamed, dreams of the past but desires it only as it is conjured in his memory. He looks back at himself as a navel-gazing
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Andre Aciman, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $23 (248p) ISBN 978-0-374-29921-7
Egyptian-born Aciman is the author of the acclaimed memoir Out of Egypt
and of the essay collection False Papers
. His first novel poignantly probes a boy's erotic coming-of-age at his family's Italian Mediterranean home. Elio—17,...
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Andre Aciman, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $26 (360p) ISBN 978-0-374-22842-2
This feverish novel from the author of Call Me by Your Name
takes a microscope to a torrid romance–cum–battle of the sexes between two 20-something New Yorkers. Clara Brunschvicg and the unnamed narrator meet at a swank Christmas Eve...
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Andre Aciman, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $20 (339p) ISBN 978-0-374-22833-0
When Aciman, born and raised in Alexandria, Egypt, was asked his nationality as a boy, he automatically replied, ``French.'' His confusion was understandable; his family were Sephardic Jews who had wandered from Italy to Turkey, then settled in...
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Andre Aciman, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $23 (288p) ISBN 978-0-374-29978-1
Memory trumps life and existence acquires the hue of old hand-tinted photographs in this collection of 14 essays by a self-defined perennial expatriate. Aciman, a frequent contributor to the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books, grew up in...
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André Aciman. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (288p) ISBN 978-0-374-14843-0
A breathless, sketched rendering of one man’s life in love, Aciman’s novel speaks earnestly not only of longing and lust, but also of more complicated emotions—“the lightning and then silence” of unrequited attraction, and the mutable desire “neither
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Andr%C3%A9 Aciman. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25 (224p) ISBN 978-0-374-10275-3
This lambent collection of essays—many of which appeared in slightly altered form in literary magazines—by the author of the memoir Out of Egypt is a reminiscence. Bound by the Latin derivation of the title (meaning "elsewhere"), each essay is an...
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André Aciman. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (272p) ISBN 978-0-374-15501-8
The elegant sequel to Aciman’s celebrated first novel, Call Me by Your Name, revisits his best-known characters some 20 years later. The story opens as Samuel, a classics professor who has abandoned hope of love, boards the train from Florence to...
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