A memoir structured round mementos that takes us to Ossie & Celia, Andy, Karl, Diana, Freddie, Diana, Diana, Barbra and many other luminaries, or possibly icons.
It is nearly thirty years since Aciman's superb memoir of his Alexandria childhood, Out of Egypt. Since Call Me By Your Name he has mutated from an academic scholar of Proust into a bestsell... read more
The wounds of repeated leavings and accumulating loss. Sliding between generations, this memoir is an intimate, lyrical and compelling portrait of the lives altered by emigration, exile and ... read more