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È l'estate del 1977 e Cambridge è quasi deserta. Gli studenti di Harvard vanno in vacanza o a fare esperienze di lavoro all'estero, e sono pochi quelli che rimangono nella citta oppressa dal gran caldo di luglio. Tra questi c'è un dottorando che si sta preparando per gli esami. È un ebreo di origini egiziane, un outsider nel mondo accademico di una delle universita più antiche e prestigiose degli Stati Uniti. Nella suggestiva Harvard Square, punto di riferimento della vita studentesca, c'è un locale dal sapore mediterraneo, il Café Algiers, completamente estraneo all'ambiente pretenzioso che lo circonda. È qui che lo studente fa l'incontro che potrebbe cambiare il corso di tutta la sua vita. Qui conosce Kalashnikov, un tassista tunisino, così soprannominato per la sua parlantina caustica e chiassosa, che non risparmia nessuno: uomini, donne, bianchi, neri, capitalisti, liberali, conservatori... I due, uniti da una lingua comune, il francese, dal profondo senso di sradicamento e dalla nostalgia per le atmosfere dei loro paesi d'origine, diventano inseparabili. Rinviata ogni decisione sul futuro, riempiono le afose giornate di chiacchiere, cibo, vino, caffé, gite al lago e belle donne. Fino a quando non ricomincia il semestre invernale ed entrambi vengono risucchiati dalle loro "vite di sempre", inconciliabilmente diverse.

André Aciman has been hailed as "the most exciting new fiction writer of the twenty-first century" (New York magazine), a "brilliant chronicler of the disconnect…between who we are and who we wish we

The bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with this collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works. The irrealis mood knows no boundaries between what is and what isn''t, between what happened and what won''t. In more ways than one, the essay about the artists, writers, and great minds gathered in this volume have nothing to do with who I am, or who they were, and my reading of them may be entirely erroneous. But I misread them the better to read myself. From meditations on subway poetry and the temporal resonances of an empty Italian street, to considerations of the lives and work of Sigmund Freud, Constantine Cavafy, W. G. Sebald, John Sloan, Eric Rohmer, Marcel Proust, and Fernando Pessoa, and portraits of cities such as Alexandria and St. Petersburg, Homo Irrealis is a deep reflection of the imagination''s power to shape our memories under time''s seemingly intractable hold.

AVAILABLE TO PRE ORDER NOW FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR There is a warmth and a humanity in Aciman s prose that enraptures with its slow easy embrace FINANCIAL TIMES Aciman s evocation of emotional subtlety and time passing is wonderful GUARDIAN Aciman pieces together a rich tapestry of human emotion in a way few other contemporary writers can match DAZED 1960s Rome As teenage Andre 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 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

From André Aciman, the author of Call Me by Your Name (now a major motion picture and the winner of the Oscar™ for Best Adapted Screenplay) comes “a sensory masterclass, absorbing, intelligent, unfor

In this spellbinding new exploration of the varieties of love, the author of Call Me by Your Name revisits his characters'' complex lives in the years after their first meeting.In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio''s father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, now a gifted classical pianist. A chance encounter on the train upends Sami''s visit and changes his life forever.Elio soon moves to Paris, where he, too, has a consequential affair, while Oliver, a New England college professor with a family, suddenly finds himself contemplating a return trip across the Atlantic.Aciman is a master of sensibility, of the intimate details and the nuances of emotion that are the substance of passion. Find Me brings us back inside the world of one of our greatest contemporary romances to show us that in fact true love never dies.

Name lets us back into his characters' lives years after their first meeting In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio's father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, now a gifted classical pianist. A chance encounter on the train upends Sami's visit and changes his life forever. Elio soon moves to Paris, where he, too, has a consequential affair, while Oliver, a New England college professor with a family, suddenly finds himself contemplating a return trip across the Atlantic. Aciman is a master of sensibility, of the intimate details and the nuances of emotion that are the substance of passion. Find Me brings us back inside the world of one of our greatest contemporary romances to show us that in fact true love never dies.

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Call Me by Your Name and Find Me, a memoir of an extraordinary life. '[A] mesmerizing portrait of a now vanished world. Aciman's story of Alexandria is the story of his own family, a Jewish family with Italian and Turkish roots that tied its future to Egypt and made its home there for three generations, only to find itself peremptorily expelled by the Government in the early 1960's.It is the story of a fractious clan of dreamers and con men and the emotional price they would pay for exile, the story of a young boy's coming of age and his memories of the city he loved in his youth. Writing in lucid, lyrical prose, Mr. Aciman does an exquisite job of conjuring up the daily rhythms and rituals of his family's life: their weekly trips to the movies, their daily jaunts to the beach, their internecine squabbles over everything from religion to money to the pronunciation of words.There are some wonderfully vivid scenes here, as strange and marvelous as something in Garcia Marquez, as comical and surprising as something in Chekhov.' Michiko Kakutani, New York TimesAciman's latest novel, Find Me, is now available for preorder in paperback.

FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHORAciman pieces together a rich tapestry of human emotion in a way few other contemporary writers can match.DAZEDTransporting . . . sensuous.OBSERVERSuperb.IRISH TIMESCompelling and witty.NEW STATESMAN1960s Rome. As teenage Andre 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. Andre is now head of the family, with a little brother to keep in line and a mother to translate for - for although shes 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 NAMEA top-notch beach read.DAILY MAILAbsorbing.MAIL ON SUNDAYThe 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.Im a sucker for books that describe missed opportunities and longing. And heres another one who captures it perfectly.Aciman really knows how to tune into that magical feeling of finding a soulmate.

From the global bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name - a dazzling, sunbaked Italian summer story.Another masterful tale of longing and desire.GlamourYou dont so much read André Acimans novels as tumble breathlessly into them.The Times We spend more time than we know trying to go back. We call it fantasising, we call it dreaming. . . but were 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 cant 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

In this spellbinding exploration of the varieties of love, the author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name revisits its complex and beguiling characters decades after their first meeting.No novel in recent memory has spoken more movingly to contemporary readers about the nature of love than Andre Acimans haunting Call Me by Your Name. First published in 2007, it was hailed as a love letter, an invocation . . . an exceptionally beautiful book (Stacey DErasmo, The New York Times Book Review). Nearly three quarters of a million copies have been sold, and the book became a much-loved, Academy Awardwinning film starring Timothee Chalamet as the young Elio and Armie Hammer as Oliver, the graduate student with whom he falls in love.In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elios father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, who has become a gifted classical pianist. A chance encounter on the train with a beautiful young woman upends Samis plans and changes his life forever.Elio soon moves to Paris, where he, too, has a consequential affair, while Oliver, now a New England college professor with a family, suddenly finds himself contemplating a return trip across the Atlantic.Aciman is a master of sensibility, of the intimate details and the emotional nuances that are the substance of passion. Find Me brings us back inside the magic circle of one of our greatest contemporary romances to ask if, in fact, true love ever dies.

2021 Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the YearThis program includes an introduction read by the author.The New York Times best-selling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with his collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works.Irrealis moods are the set of verbal moods that indicate that something is not actually the case or a certain situation or action is not known to have happened....Andre Aciman returns to the essay form in Homo Irrealis to explore what the present tense means to artists who cannot grasp the here and now. Irrealis is not about the present, or the past, or the future, but about what might have been but never was - but could in theory still happen.From meditations on subway poetry and the temporal resonances of an empty Italian street, to considerations of the lives and work of Sigmund Freud, Constantine Cavafy, W. G. Sebald, John Sloan, Eric Rohmer, Marcel Proust, and Fernando Pessoa, and portraits of cities such as Alexandria and St. Petersburg, Homo Irrealis is a deep reflection of the imaginations power to shape our memories under times seemingly intractable hold.A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Call Me By Your Name: by Andre Aciman | Conversation StartersSeventeen-year-old Elio is in love with Oliver, his parents doctoral student guest in their summer villa in Italy. He finds him rather detached and carefree, unlike Elio who spends much of his time introspecting. But he starts getting attracted to him, and all the more as he discovers that Oliver feels the same. Tentative touches lead to passionate sex. But how far will this love affair go? Does the more mature Oliver really love and want Elio to think of something more lasting?Call Me By Your Name, a first novel by literary scholar Andre Aciman is the New York Times Notable Book when it came out in 2007. It is recently made into film under the direction of Italian Luca Guadagnino.A Brief Look Inside:EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPERthan the surface of its pages. The characters and their world come alive,and the characters and its world still live on.Conversation Starters is peppered with questions designed tobring us beneath the surface of the pageand invite us into the world that lives on.These questions can be used to..Create Hours of Conversation: Foster a deeper understanding of the book Promote an atmosphere of discussion for groups Assist in the study of the book, either individually or corporately Explore unseen realms of the book as never seen before

Por el autor de Llámame por tu nombre, unas inolvidables memorias familiares donde renace el esplendor de un mundo desaparecido.En Lejos de Egipto, André Aciman rememora su infancia en la espléndida y multicultural Alejandria y las peripecias de su excentrica familia, judios sefarditas con raices turcas e italianas, desde su llegada a la ciudad a principios de siglo hasta su expulsion en la decada de los sesenta, cuando el autor era adolescente. Un clan compuesto por figuras tan carismaticas como inclasificables: el tio Vili, exsoldado fanfarron, fascista italiano y espia britanico; las dos abuelas, la santa y la princesa, capaces de chismorrear en seis idiomas, incluido el ladino; la madre, Gigi, una mujer sorda de armas tomar; o la tia Flora, refugiada alemana que no cesa de recordar que los judios perderan cuanto poseen al menos dos veces en la vida.Comicas y exquisitas, con delicados ecos proustianos, estas hermosas memorias, construidas a la manera de las grandes sagas familiares, consiguen envolver al lector con una historia y unos protagonistas inolvidables. Lejos de Egipto, el libro mas querido de su autor y seguramente el mas emblematico, es una vivida y melancolica evocacion de la infancia como paraiso perdido, y de los perfumes y melodias de un luminoso mundo que el lector tampoco querra abandonar.Fascinante en cada una de sus paginas y capitulos () Unas memorias realmente deliciosas, llenas de comicidad, emocion y hechos extravagantes y geniales. Mercedes Monmany (ABC Cultural)Es divertido definir "Lejos de Egipto": un poco de "Bella del señor", un poco de "El cuarteto de Alejandria", un poco de Woody Allen, un poco de Marcel Proust, un poco de Isaac Bashevis Singer... () Una memoria intima de un momento historico. Luis Alemany (El Mundo)Unas memorias que entretienen tanto o mas que una obra de ficcion. () El autor vuelve a demostrar que es un maestro de la sensualidad y los detalles exquisitos, en esta ocasion añadiendo una inolvidable alegria de vivir. Sagrario Fernandez-Prieto (La Razon)Aciman vuelve a enamorarnos, esta vez de su perdido Egipto () un ejercicio de recuerdo y nostalgia radiante () El detalle de las descripciones de Aciman hacen que sus recuerdos sobre las calles, los comercios, los olores y la luz de Ibrahimiya, Mandara o La Corniche sean palpables. Mila Mendez (La Voz de Galicia)Aciman es tan buen escritor, tiene un ojo tan certero para los detalles y su sentido de la psicologia parece tan elevado que siempre estamos dispuestos a creer lo que cuenta con fina ironia. Por la novela desfila una galeria de personajes, vividamente dibujados. () La naturaleza de la vida en Alejandria esta maravillosamente escenificada. Luis M. Alonso (La Nueva España)Una lectura mas que recomendable, sobresaliente. Maria-Jose Furio (Mercurio)Aciman logra capturar de forma exquisita el ritmo cotidiano y los rituales de su familia: las salidas semanales al cine, las excursiones diarias a la playa, las pequeñas rencillas sobre cualquier cosa, desde la religion al dinero o a la pronunciacion de las palabras. Hay escenas magnificamente vividas, tan extrañas y maravillosas como en Garcia Marquez, tan comicas y sorprendentes como en Chejov. Michiko Kakutani (The New York Times)

This contemporary twist on Brief Encounter is a tender meditation on what might have been.Maybe we love people because they wont let us know them.A summers evening in Manhattan. Nothing - not cold drinks, not showers not a stroll through the chilly aisles of an all-night drugstore - can undo the heats hold on the city. Julian is half watching the evening news, his husband filling the dishwasher. Thats 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 hed like her to relay. Emails are exchanged. Morning coffee at the Bryant Park Grill is agreed. Carol, fulfilling Pauls 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.Readers adored Stowaways:I have unashamedly fallen in love with Andre Acimans writing. . . I couldnt stop reading until the very last page.Its a really beautiful book of two people talking about love.Poignant, heart-warming, stimulating and challenging. All readers should recognise something of themselves in this story.I had no idea what to expect going into this book but in true Andre Aciman style, I was floored by the sheer beauty of it.

AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOWDeeply moving.VOGUECompletely blew me away! MARC JACOBSBeautiful and wise. COLM TOIBINA 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 fathers house guest. Oliver is the picture of arrogance - all billowing shirts and snide comments - and Elio is convinced that Oliver will be someone hell grow to hate.Thrown together, a friendship blossoms as the pair spend endless hours walking treelined streets, enjoying sun-soaked lunches, and beating 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.

Now a Major Motion Picture from Director Luca Guadagnino, Starring Armie Hammer and Timothe Chalamet, and Written by Three-Time Oscara Nominee James IvoryThe Basis of the Oscar-Winning Best Adapted ScreenplayA New York Times BestsellerA USA Today Bestseller A Los Angeles Times BestsellerA Vulture Book Club Pick An Instant Classic and One of the Great Love Stories of Our Time Andr Acimans Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents cliff-side mansion on the Italian Riviera. Unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, at first each feigns indifference. But during the restless summer weeks that follow, unrelenting buried currents of obsession and fear, fascination and desire, intensify their passion as they test the charged ground between them. What grows from the depths of their spirits is a romance of scarcely six weeks duration and an experience that marks them for a lifetime. For what the two discover on the Riviera and during a sultry evening in Rome is the one thing both already fear they may never truly

The elegant and insightful memoir from the bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name, Find Me and The Gentleman From Peru.Rome, 1964. As 13 year old André 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 shes 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.