André Aciman

Rediscover one of the twentieth century's greatest romances: this seductive tale of four tangled lovers in wartime Egypt, introduced by André Aciman (Call Me By Your Name and Find Me), is 'wonderful' (Elif Shafak)I remembered Justine saying harshly as she lay in bed: 'We use each other like axes to cut down the ones we really love'.Alexandria: the great winepress of love. Trams, palm trees, and watermelon stalls lie honey-bathed in sunlight; in darkened bedrooms, sweaty lovers unfurl. But in a world trembling on the brink of war, passion and death are inextricable. When a penniless schoolteacher begins an affair with Justine - a married Egyptian lady of unparalleled glamour - their partners are sucked into a whirlpool of jealousy and violence. One of the world's greatest romances, rich in political and sexual intrigue, Lawrence Durrell's scandalous 'investigation of modern love' set the world alight in 1957 and - as André Aciman reveals - it burns just as brightly today.What Readers Are Saying:'Sometimes you discover a new author and know you're going to be friends for life ... One of the most beautiful books I've ever read.''I absolutely adored this book ... I felt sucked into it with an amazing force by the beauty of the words ... The backdrop of 1930s Egypt's literary circles and bohemian relationships is mesmerising ... Breathtaking.''Shimmering and dreamlike ... One of the most beautifully written books I've read ... All of life is here; can't wait for the next one.''Lush, brutal, beautiful ... Durrell captured a place and time that will never exist again.''What makes this novel truly spectacular is the language, the episodic jumps in time, the lush lyricism, and how Durrell so deftly manages to tie this all into both the city of Alexandria and the themes of passion, love, and jealousy. 'What The Critics Said:'A masterpiece.' Guardian'One of the great works of English fiction.' Times 'Dazzlingly exuberant ... Reckless ... Superb.' Observer'Brave and brazen ... Lush and grandiose.' Independent 'Legendary ... Casts a spell ... Reader, watch out!' Guardian'Lushly beautiful ... One of the most important works of our time.' NYTBR

Witty banter, lust, ennui, and an undercurrent of violence percolate beneath a seemingly paradisiacal summer on the eve of World War II, in this landmark translation of the first and only novel by Éric Rohmer, the French New Wave’s most prolific and beloved filmmaker. Fifteen years before completing his first feature film—and ten before beginning a transformative editorial stint at Cahiers du cinéma that would usher the journal, and French cinema, into a new era—the man who would become known worldwide as Éric Rohmer published a single novel. Released by Éditions Gallimard alongside the early works of Claude Simon and Marguérite Duras, Élisabeth was part of the first flowering of what would come to be known as the nouveau roman—and was also the “matrix,” as Rohmer himself later put it, of the images, ideas, and formal concerns of his first sequence of films, Six Moral Tales. Set in the sunstruck countryside east of Paris during the summer of 1939, a year ahead of the German invasion, where the upper-middle-class Roby family and its eponymous matriarch are spending a listless summer, Élisabeth is a war-novel awaiting a war. While the teenage Roby children and their friends swim, flirt, and lie to one another among the baking fields and icy meanders of the Marne, the novel becomes the scene of an anticipatory haunting. The simmering paranoia, calculated blankness, and potential violence of the coming Occupation are already present—as it were, in mufti. With a cool, kaleidoscopic eye, Rohmer lays out his protagonists and their precarious peace—their restlessness, their desperate boredom, their petty romantic agonies—with the unsettling chilliness and the sinister exactitude of details on a tactical map.

AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW 'Deeply moving.' VOGUE 'Completely blew me away!' MARC JACOBS 'Beautiful and wise.' COLM TOIBIN A sundrenched graphic novel adaptation of one of the greatest love stories of our time. 'We were friends first and lovers second. Perhaps this is what lovers are.' On the Italian Riviera, Elio welcomes his father's house guest. Oliver is the picture of arrogance - all billowing shirts and snide comments - and Elio is convinced that Oliver will be someone he'll grow to hate. Thrown together, a friendship blossoms as the pair spend endless hours walking treelined streets, enjoying sun-soaked lunches, and besting each other at tennis. Soon, Elio finds himself longing to make Oliver laugh and relishing glimpses of his glistening skin sprawled poolside. Over the restless weeks of the summer, an undeniable connection deepens as the two become entwined in the one thing both fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy. For the first time, from artist Sarah Maxwell, comes the gorgeous graphic novel adaptation of this international sensation. What Call Me By Your Name means to readers: 'I cannot express enough how deeply I connected with this story, it really is a whole experience.' 'Passionate, intimate and eternal.' 'The love and intimacy we all desire at every level.' 'Wistful, emotional and painful . . . all in a good way.' 'This is one of the great love stories.'

Three hypnotic novellas about obsessional love, missed connections, and enduring regret by the bestselling author of Call Me by Your Name. No one writes about the ups and downs, the yeses and noes, of contemporary love like Andr Aciman. As Johanna Thomas-Corr wrote in The Times (London): "You don't so much read Andr Aciman's novels as tumble breathlessly into them." In Room on the Sea, Aciman offers three heart-wrenching tales of amorous ambivalence, all of which unfold in his inimitably nostalgic style. "The Gentleman from Peru" tells the story of the life-changing encounter between a group of friends and an enigmatic solitary guest in a hotel on the Amalfi Coast. "Room on the Sea" is a dialogue between a man and a woman who meet on jury duty and embark on a complex relationship. "Mariana" is a modern retelling of a famous seventeenth-century novel about a love affair between a nun and a swashbuckling, unreliable aristocrat. Together, Aciman's novellas form a complex portrait of desire, and of love realized and lost.

Jug Italii, leto na Amalfitanskom poberezhe. Iz-za polomki jakhty gruppa amerikantsev vynuzhdena ostanovitsja v otele s pozhilymi turistami. Tam oni vstrechajut zagadochnogo Raulja, kotoryj nachinaet raskryvat lichnye tajny kazhdogo - takie, o kotorykh nikto ne mog znat.Raul zavoevyvaet doverie rasskazami o mificheskikh mestakh poberezhja, polnykh legend o strasti i utrate. Vse poddajutsja ego obajaniju, krome Margo, kotoruju on s samogo nachala nazval ee "nastojaschim" imenem - Marja.No progulki i dolgie razgovory sblizhajut ikh, i Raul otkryvaet Margo put v proshloe, gde skryty niti, svjazyvajuschie ikh sudby.

FROM THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF CALL ME BY YOUR NAME 'A top-notch beach read.' DAILY MAIL 'Absorbing.' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'The perfect escapist read.' INEWS Have you ever had the sense that maybe all lives are nothing more than the chronicle of countless stinging might-have-beens that continue to haunt us? In the scorching New York heat, a hundred people wait to be selected as jurors. Paul is reading a newspaper. Catherine is reading a novel. So begins a whirlwind flirtation: over cappuccinos in Manhattan and gallery trips to Chelsea, Paul and Catherine escape into the illusion of an Italian getaway. Their feelings quickly evolve into something deeper, something - as mature adults with lives of their own - Paul and Catherine must carry on in secret, with the understanding that anything more than a casual crush is out of the question. But as the sultry summer week draws to a close, the end of their rendezvous comes into focus, and Paul and Catherine are forced to decide whether to act on their feelings or leave the fantasy of what could have been to the annals of the past. Readers adore Room on the Sea: 'What a beautiful short novel . . . I savoured every page.' ????? 'I'm a sucker for books that describe missed opportunities and longing. And here's another one who captures it perfectly.' ????? 'Aciman really knows how to tune into that magical feeling of finding a soulmate.' ?????

This contemporary twist on Brief Encounter is a tender meditation on what might have been. 'Maybe we love people because they won't let us know them.' A summer's evening in Manhattan. Nothing - not cold drinks, not showers not a stroll through the chilly aisles of an all-night drugstore - can undo the heat's hold on the city. Julian is half watching the evening news, his husband filling the dishwasher. That's when it arrives. An email with the subject line: 'From Paul Axel'. An email about a dead man from Carol - a woman Julian has never met. Paul has left a message he'd like her to relay. Emails are exchanged. Morning coffee at the Bryant Park Grill is agreed. Carol, fulfilling Paul's final request, wonders how she will tell Julian of a life - and a love - he has no idea existed. A life, encased in a flash drive, containing multitudes.

Jug Italii, leto na Amalfitanskom poberezhe. Iz-za polomki jakhty gruppa amerikantsev vynuzhdena ostanovitsja v otele s pozhilymi turistami. Tam oni vstrechajut zagadochnogo Raulja, kotoryj nachinaet raskryvat lichnye tajny kazhdogo, - takie, o kotorykh nikto ne mog znat. Raul zavoevyvaet doverie rasskazami o mificheskikh mestakh poberezhja, polnykh legend o strasti i utrate. Vse poddajutsja ego obajaniju, krome Margo, kotoruju on s samogo nachala nazval ee "nastojaschim" imenem - Marja. No progulki i dolgie razgovory sblizhajut ikh, i Raul otkryvaet Margo put v proshloe, gde skryty niti, svjazyvajuschie ikh sudby. Perevod A. Glebovskoj

Kompanija molodikh amerikantsiv zupinjajetsja v rozkishnomu goteli na pivdni Italiji, de vidpochivajut perevazhno litni turisti. Poki lagodjat jikhnju jakhtu, druzi, shukajuchi sobi rozvag, schovechora sposterigajut za zagadkovim neznajomtsem u restorani. Toj zdajetsja vidljudkuvatim i divnim, ale odnogo dnja raptom sam pidkhodit do jikhnogo stolika. Vlashtovuje seans chudesnogo ztsilennja, a zgodom rozkrivaje intimni podrobitsi z zhittja kozhnogo z prisutnikh - te, pro scho nikhto nikoli ne povinen buv znati...I tse tilki pochatok - poperedu khimerna podorozh u minule ta istorija kokhannja, narodzhena v mifichnomu mistsi, de poljami pidzemnogo tsarstva blukajut rozbiti sertsja. Opovid nabuvaje osoblivogo zvuchannja zavdjaki firmovomu stilju Asimana ta jogo delikatnomu vminnju zanurjuvati chitachiv u najsokrovennishi glibini pochuttiv.

The author of Call Me by Your Name returns with a deeply romantic memoir of his time in Rome while on the cusp of adulthood. In Roman Year, Andr Aciman captures the period of his adolescence that began when he and his family first set foot in Rome, after being expelled from Egypt. Though Aciman's family had been well-off in Alexandria, all vestiges of their status vanished when they fled, and the author, his younger brother, and his deaf mother moved into a rented apartment in Rome's Via Clelia. Though dejected, Aciman's mother and brother found their way into life in Rome, while Aciman, still unmoored, burrowed into his bedroom to read one book after the other. The world of novels eventually allowed him to open up to the city and, through them, discover the beating heart of the Eternal City. Aciman's time in Rome did not last long before he and his family moved across the ocean, but by the time they did, he was leaving behind a city he loved. In this memoir, the author, a genius of "the poetry of the place" (John Domini, The Boston Globe), conjures the sights, smells, tastes, and people of Rome as only he can. Aciman captures, as if in amber, a living portrait of himself on the brink of adulthood and the city he worshipped at that pivotal moment. Roman Year is a treasure, unearthed by one of our greatest prose stylists.

La nueva y mejor novela del autor de Ll mame por tu nombre.El libro que inspir la pr xima adaptaci n de la serie de Netflix, protagonizada por Jeremy Allen White. «Aciman escribe con la ferocidad del escritor que finalmente ha dado con su manera de ver y tiene que sacarla a la luz. Ha creado algo magn fico y vivo . --The New York Times Como un mismo tema musical (el del erotismo, los recuerdos y el cuerpo) tocado en sus diversas variaciones, as son los v nculos de Paul con las diferentes personas que han ido dando forma a lo que l entiende por amor. Hombres y mujeres con los que se ha encontrado desde su adolescencia en Italia hasta su madurez en Estados Unidos. Todas estas conexiones, que trazan una constelaci n cargada de deseo a lo largo de la vida de su protagonista, se alan tambi n los momentos culminantes de Variaciones Enigma, la nueva y magistral novela de Andr Aciman. Un relato sensual y repleto de destellos sobre la posibilidad de descubrirnos a trav s de los dem s, de nuestros momentos compartidos y de la intimidad construida de manera conjunta. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The book that inspired the upcoming Netflix series adaptation, starring Jeremy Allen White. From Andr Aciman, the author of Call Me by Your Name (now a major motion picture and the winner of the Oscar(TM) for Best Adapted Screenplay) comes "a sensory masterclass, absorbing, intelligent, unforgettable" (Times Literary Supplement). Andr Aciman, hailed as a writer of "fiction at its most supremely interesting" (The New York Review of Books), has written a novel that charts the life of a man named Paul, whose loves remain as consuming and as covetous throughout his adulthood as they were in his adolescence. Whether the setting is southern Italy, where as a boy he has a crush on his parents' cabinetmaker, or a snowbound campus in New England, where his enduring passion for a girl he'll meet again and again over the years is punctuated by anonymous encounters with men; whether he's on a tennis court in Central Park, or on a New York sidewalk in early spring, his attachments are ungraspable, transient, and forever underwritten by raw desire--not for just one person's body but, inevitably, for someone else's as well. In Enigma Variations, Aciman maps the most inscrutable corners of passion, proving to be an unsparing reader of the human psyche and a master stylist. With language at once lyrical, bare-knuckled, and unabashedly candid, he casts a sensuous, shimmering light over each facet of desire to probe how we ache, want, and waver, and ultimately how we sometimes falter and let go of those who may want to offer only what we crave from them. Ahead of every step Paul takes, his hopes, denials, fears, and regrets are always ready to lay their traps. Yet the dream of love lingers. We may not always know what we want. We may remain enigmas to ourselves and to others. But sooner or later we discover who we've always known we were.

Three hypnotic novellas about obsessional love, missed connections, and enduring regret by the bestselling author of Call Me by Your Name. The short fictions in Room on the Sea deal with the heart-wrenching vicissitudes of amorous ambivalence, in Andr Aciman's inimitably nostalgic, lyric style. "The Gentleman from Peru" tells the story of the life-changing encounter of a group of friends with an enigmatic solitary guest in a hotel on the Amalfi Coast. "Room on the Sea" is a dialogue between a man and a woman who meet on jury duty and embark on a complex relationship. "Mariana" is a modern retelling of a famous seventeenth-century novel about a love affair between a nun and a swashbuckling, unreliable aristocrat. No one writes about the ups and downs, the yeses and nos, of contemporary love like Aciman. As The Times (London) writes: "You don't so much read Andr Aciman's novels as tumble breathlessly into them."

1960s Rome. As teenage André stands on the dock, his mother fusses over their luggage - 32 suitcases, trunks and tea chests that contain their world. The ship will refuel and return to Alexandria, the home where they have left their father, as the Aciman family begin a new adventure in Rome. André is now head of the family, with a little brother to keep in line and a mother to translate for - for although she's mute, she is nothing if not communicative. Equal parts transporting and beautiful, this coming of age memoir shares the luminous, fragile truth of life for a family forever in exile, living in Rome, but still yet to find a home.

FROM THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF CALL ME BY YOUR NAME'A top-notch beach read.' DAILY MAIL'Absorbing.' MAIL ON SUNDAY'The perfect escapist read.' INEWSHave you ever had the sense that maybe all lives are nothing more than the chronicle of countless stinging might-have-beens that continue to haunt us?In the scorching New York heat, a hundred people wait to be selected as jurors. Paul is reading a newspaper. Catherine is reading a novel. So begins a whirlwind flirtation: over cappuccinos in Manhattan and gallery trips to Chelsea, Paul and Catherine escape into the illusion of an Italian getaway. Their feelings quickly evolve into something deeper, something - as mature adults with lives of their own - Paul and Catherine must carry on in secret, with the understanding that anything more than a casual crush is out of the question. But as the sultry summer week draws to a close, the end of their rendezvous comes into focus, and Paul and Catherine are forced to decide whether to act on their feelings or leave the fantasy of what could have been to the annals of the past.Readers adore Room on the Sea:'What a beautiful short novel . . . I savoured every page.' ?????'I'm a sucker for books that describe missed opportunities and longing. And here's another one who captures it perfectly.' ?????'Aciman really knows how to tune into that magical feeling of finding a soulmate.' ?????

'Another masterful tale of longing and desire.' Glamour'You don't so much read André Aciman's novels as tumble breathlessly into them.' The TimesWe spend more time than we know trying to go back. We call it fantasising, we call it dreaming. . . but we're all crawling back, each in his or her own way.A group of college friends find themselves marooned at a luxurious hotel on the Amalfi Coast in Italy. While their boat is being repaired, they can't help but observe the daily routine of a fellow hotel guest - a mysterious, white-bearded stranger who sits on the veranda each night and smokes one cigarette, sometimes two. When the group decides to invite the elegant traveller to lunch with them, they cannot begin to imagine the miraculous abilities, strange wisdom, and a life-changing story he is about to impart to one of the friends in particular. . . Deeply atmospheric and sensual, The Gentleman From Peru weaves achingly poignant insight into a story of regret, fate and epic love.Readers loved The Gentleman from Peru:????? 'Love love loved this . . . I felt the heat rise from the page'????? 'A beautiful depiction of a moment that will stay with me'????? 'Magic . . . a rare story you will remember forever'????? 'Beautiful and poignant, a perfect read for the summer'

The author of Call Me by Your Name returns with a deeply romantic memoir of his time in Rome while on the cusp of adulthood. In Roman Year, Andr Aciman captures the period of his adolescence that began when he and his family first set foot in Rome, after being expelled from Egypt. Though Aciman's family had been well-off in Alexandria, all vestiges of their status vanished when they fled, and the author, his younger brother, and his deaf mother moved into a rented apartment in Rome's Via Clelia. Though dejected, Aciman's mother and brother found their way into life in Rome, while Aciman, still unmoored, burrowed into his bedroom to read one book after the other. The world of novels eventually allowed him to open up to the city and, through them, discover the beating heart of the Eternal City. Aciman's time in Rome did not last long before he and his family moved across the ocean, but by the time they did, he was leaving behind a city he loved. In this memoir, the author, a genius of "the poetry of the place" (John Domini, The Boston Globe), conjures the sights, smells, tastes, and people of Rome as only he can. Aciman captures, as if in amber, a living portrait of himself on the brink of adulthood and the city he worshipped at that pivotal moment. Roman Year is a treasure, unearthed by one of our greatest prose stylists.

Rome, 1964. As 13 year old Andre stands at the foot of the gangway to the ship, his mother fusses over their luggage - 32 suitcases, trunks and tea chests that contain their world. The ship will refuel and return to Alexandria, the home where they have left their father, as the Aciman family begin a new adventure. Andre is now head of the family, with a little brother to keep in line and a mother to translate for - for although she's mute, she is nothing if not communicative.Equal parts transporting and beautiful, this coming of age memoir shares the luminous, fragile truth of life for a family forever in exile, living in Rome, but still yet to find a home.