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André Aciman


Egypt (b.1951)

André Aciman (born in Alexandria, Egypt) is an American novelist, essayist, memoirist, and leading scholar of the works of Marcel Proust. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The Paris Review, as well as in several volumes of The Best American Essays. Aciman is the author of the Whiting Award winning memoir Out of Egypt, an account of his childhood as a secular Jew growing up in Egypt during the 1950s and 1960s. He holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Harvard University and currently teaches at the Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York. He previously taught comparative literature at Princeton University, Bard College, and creative writing at New York University.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
September 2024

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My Roman Year
 
Series
Call Me by Your Name
   1. Call Me by Your Name (2007)
   2. Find Me (2019)
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Novels
   Eight White Nights (2010)
   Harvard Square (2013)
   The Gentleman From Peru (2024)
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Collections
   Enigma Variations (2017)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Mariana (2021)
   Room on the Sea (2022)
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Non fiction show
 
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Inverno (2024)
Cynthia Zarin
"A brilliant incantation to undying love, where love is a promise that time can't keep but cannot break. Love does not heal, is not muted by regrets, shame, or denial, and is forever revived where we wanted it chilled and dead. To use Cynthia Zarin's word, love annihilates."
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The Prince (2022)
Dinitia Smith
"What a wonderful gift of a book, and what a treat to return to Henry James' radiant plot a century later to recover the magic, the genius, and beauty of those shadows that always hover between one person and another. Money could be the reason, deceit the villain, love the remedy, but it is always trust that pays the price in the end. A stunning and audacious retelling of The Golden Bowl."
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The Passenger (2021)
Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
"Prophetic and flawlessly penetrating . . . Boschwitz’s tale of an individual scurrying from train station to train station across a homeland that is no longer home could not have been more prescient of the terror the Nazis would unleash . . . What Boschwitz saw clearly was the utter despoliation of one’s identity, of one’s trust in the world, and ultimately of one’s very humanity."

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