It is nearly thirty years since Aciman's superb memoir of his Alexandrian childhood, Out of Egypt. Since Call Me By Your Name, he has mutated from an academic scholar of Proust into a bestse... read more
Summer in New York: our two protagonists catch one another's fancy while they wait to be selected as jurors. Another novella by the author of Call Me By Your Name and many others.
It is nearly thirty years since Aciman's superb memoir of his Alexandrian childhood, Out of Egypt. Since Call Me By Your Name, he has mutated from an academic scholar of Proust into a bestse... read more
Sebald, an empty street in Italy, Cavafy, St Petersburg, Alexandria, Eric Rohmer, Proust and Pessoa: Aciman's essays roam through time, imagination, place and memory.