André Aciman Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

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].

The memoir explores the author's experiences in Rome following his family's exile from Egypt, capturing the cultural adjustments and emotional challenges they faced. It reflects on themes of displacement, identity, and the search for belonging as they navigate life in a new city before ultimately relocating to America. Through vivid storytelling, the author shares personal anecdotes that highlight the complexities of adapting to a foreign environment while holding onto their heritage.

A dazzling, sunbaked Italian summer story from the global bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name.

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.

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.

"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."

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.