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Enigma Variations

(Paperback, Main)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Enigma Variations

Contributors:

By (Author) Andr Aciman

ISBN:

9780571349692

Publisher:

Faber & Faber

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Publication Date:

1st July 2019

UK Publication Date:

21st February 2019

Edition:

Main

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:

Fiction

Dewey:

813.6

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

288

Dimensions:

Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 17mm

Weight:

240g

Description

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'.

Andre 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.

Author Bio

Andre Aciman is the New York Times bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name, Out of Egypt, Eight White Nights, False Papers, Alibis, and Harvard Square, and most recently Enigma Variations, now out in paperback. He's the editor of The Proust Project and teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He lives with his wife in Manhattan.

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