My Roman Year (Hardback)

The book is a cornucopia of wonderful impressions and emotions . . . a superb portrait of a complex city through the eyes of a complex teenager, on an exciting journey through this unpredictable life.

It's [Aciman's] slow appreciation of the city that shapes this transporting coming-of-age memoir in which beauty and the anguish of exile and displacement are rendered with the same sensuous, questing intensity that characterises his fiction.

Aciman’s characteristic roman d’analyse style of writing allows the memoir to read like a novel . . . just below the surface lies generational trauma and displacement, which has been masterfully woven into the narrative. Compelling and witty, My Roman Year gives a touching insight into the influences of André Aciman’s well-loved literary world.

An absorbing exploration of the challenges and slivers of beauty that formed life as a refugee in Rome.

A wry and touching memoir.

A dazzling evocation of a time and a place. . . When I began Out of Egypt, it was the vividness of its social history that struck me. When I finished it, it was the timeliness, maybe even the necessity, of its publication... I was borne along by the brio of the writing.