André Aciman Libri

Vent'anni fa, un'estate in Riviera, una di quelle estati che segnano la vita per sempre. Elio ha diciassette anni, e per lui sono appena iniziate le vacanze nella splendida villa di famiglia nel Ponente ligure. Figlio di un professore universitario, musicista sensibile, decisamente colto per la sua età, il ragazzo aspetta come ogni anno "l'ospite dell'estate, l'ennesima scocciatura": uno studente in arrivo da New York per lavorare alla sua tesi di post dottorato. Ma Oliver, il giovane americano, conquista tutti con la sua bellezza e i modi disinvolti. Anche Elio ne è irretito. I due condividono, oltre alle origini ebraiche, molte passioni: discutono di film, libri, fanno passeggiate e corse in bici. E tra loro nasce un desiderio inesorabile quanto inatteso, vissuto fino in fondo, dalla sofferenza all'estasi. "Chiamami col tuo nome" è la storia di un paradiso scoperto e già perduto, una meditazione proustiana sul tempo e sul desiderio, una domanda che resta aperta finché Elio e Oliver si ritroveranno un giorno a confessare a se stessi che "questa cosa che quasi non fu mai ancora ci tenta".

"Approdato a Roma da Milano, Leo Gazzarra è un trentenne alla ricerca di se stesso, in fuga dal grigiore del nord e dalla mancanza di una prospettiva esistenziale. Colto e amante dei libri, si accontenta di lavori saltuari e malpagati, girovaga per i caffè della città trovando nell'alcol un rifugio. Le sue relazioni sono quelle effimere e superficiali dei salotti, fatta eccezione per un amico sincero e per la ragazza fragile e inquieta che gli cambierà la vita. Dopo nemmeno mezza giornata di lavoro abbandona il posto sicuro e ben pagato in Rai: è la resa a un dolore che si placa e si riaccende negli incontri con gli affetti più veri. Intorno, una Roma falsamente accogliente, indifferente alle sorti di chi ci vive. Un romanzo feroce e amaro, che indaga il rapporto disincantato tra un uomo e la sua città e la contraddizione che lo condanna a sentirsi parte di un tutto e insieme inesorabilmente solo."

«Sono Clara.» Questa semplice presentazione segna per il giovane protagonista un'improvvisa apertura a un sogno e a una nuova vita. Durante una festa di vigilia di Natale, si trova circondato da sconosciuti, ma l'incontro con Clara, bella, colta e irriverente, dà inizio a un'intensa schermaglia amorosa. I due si scambiano affondi e ritirate, relegando gli altri a semplici comparse. Mentre cresce il desiderio, si fa strada anche la paura che tutto possa finire all'improvviso. Tuttavia, l'incanto si rinnova serata dopo serata, in un percorso che li avvicina al nuovo anno. La New York invernale, con i suoi riflessi viola-argentei, fa da sfondo a questa storia d'amore, tra ghiaccio e parchi innevati, evocando un'atmosfera fiabesca. Il lettore, coinvolto e rapito da una prosa ricca e sensuale, vive il momento magico e irripetibile della nascita di un amore, assistendo alla creazione di un universo condiviso di parole, rituali e ricordi, intensi e talvolta dolorosi. Tra passi falsi e tentativi di opporsi a un sentimento ineluttabile, la storia si dipana, rivelando la bellezza e la complessità dell'amore.

In this spellbinding exploration of love, the author revisits complex characters decades after their first meeting. Aciman's haunting narrative, first published in 2007, has resonated deeply with contemporary readers, earning acclaim as "a love letter" and an "exceptionally beautiful book." With nearly three-quarters of a million copies sold, it inspired a beloved Academy Award-winning film featuring Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer. In this sequel, Elio's father, Samuel, embarks on a journey from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, now a gifted classical pianist. A chance encounter on the train with a captivating young woman alters Sami's life in unexpected ways. Meanwhile, Elio relocates to Paris, where he engages in a significant affair, while Oliver, now a New England college professor with a family, contemplates a return across the Atlantic. Aciman's mastery lies in his ability to capture the intimate details and emotional nuances that define passion. This narrative invites readers back into the enchanting world of one of contemporary romance's greatest tales, exploring the enduring question of whether true love ever truly fades.

A magical realist tale inspired by The Tempest.

'[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 Times

From the highly acclaimed author of Out of Egypt and Call Me by Your Name , a series of linked essays on memory by "the poet of disappointed love--and of the city" ( New York Times Book Review ).In these fourteen essays Andre Aciman, one of the most poignant stylists of his generation, dissects the experience of loss, moving from his forced departure from Alexandria as a teenager, though his brief stay in Europe and finally to the home he's made (and half invented) on Manhattan's Upper West Side.From False Papers : We remember not because we have something we wish to go back to, nor because memories are all we have. We remember because memory is our most intimate, most familiar gesture. Most people are convinced I love Alexandria. In truth, I love remembering Alexandria. For it is not Alexandria that is beautiful. Remembering is beautiful.

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.

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. 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.[Bokinfo].

André Aciman's third novel, set in 1977, tells the story of a young Jewish Harvard graduate student yearning for assimilation into American culture. His life changes when he befriends Kalaj, a charismatic Arab cab driver. Their bond challenges the student's ambitions, forcing him to choose between his dreams and loyalty to his friend.

A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011 Celebrated as one of the most poignant stylists of his generation, André Aciman has written a luminous series of linked essays about time, place, identity, and art that show him at his very finest. From beautiful and moving pieces about the memory evoked by the scent of lavender; to meditations on cities like Barcelona, Rome, Paris, and New York; to his sheer ability to unearth life secrets from an ordinary street corner, Alibis reminds the reader that Aciman is a master of the personal essay.

From a youthful infatuation with a cabinet maker in a small Italian fishing village, to a passionate yet sporadic affair with a woman in New York, to an obsession with a man he meets at a tennis court, Enigma Variations charts one man's path through the great loves of his life. Paul's intense desires, losses and longings draw him closer, not to a defined orientation, but to an understanding that 'heartache, like love, like low-grade fevers, like the longing to reach out and touch a hand across the table, is easy enough to live down'. André Aciman casts a 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 the very ones we want the most. We may not 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.

Aciman erzählt in sechs Kapiteln die Geschichte einer jüdischen Familie, die Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts von Konstantinopel nach Alexandria zieht und dort sechs Jahrzehnte lebt. Nach der Machtübernahme der Nationalisten zerstreut sich die Familie, während Aciman uns durch das kulturell vielfältige Alexandria führt.

En Lejos de Egipto, André Aciman rememora su infancia en la espléndida y multicultural Alejandría y las peripecias de su excéntrica familia, judíos sefarditas con raíces turcas e italianas, desde su llegada a la ciudad a principios de siglo hasta su expulsión en la década de los sesenta, cuando el autor era adolescente. Un clan compuesto por figuras tan carismáticas como inclasificables: el tío Vili, exsoldado fanfarrón, fascista italiano y espía británico; 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 tía Flora, refugiada alemana que no cesa de recordar que los judíos perderán cuanto poseen «al menos dos veces en la vida». Cómicas 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 más querido de su autor y seguramente el más emblemático, es una vívida y melancólica evocación de la infancia como paraíso perdido, y de los perfumes y melodías de un luminoso mundo que el lector tampoco querrá abandonar.