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Summary
FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR
‘Aciman pieces together a rich tapestry of human emotion in a way few other contemporary writers can match.’ DAZED
‘Transporting . . . sensusous.’ OBSERVER
‘Compelling and witty.’ NEW STATESMAN
1960s Rome. As teenage André stands on the dock, his mother fusses over their luggage – 32 suitcases, trunks and tea chests that contain their world. The ship will refuel and return to Alexandria, the home where they have left their father, as the Aciman family begin a new adventure in Rome. André is now head of the family, with a little brother to keep in line and a mother to translate for – for although she’s mute, she is nothing if not communicative.
Equal parts transporting and beautiful, this coming of age memoir shares the luminous, fragile truth of life for a family forever in exile, living in Rome, but still yet to find a home.
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André Aciman is the New York Times bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name, and various works of fiction and non fiction. He’s the editor of The Proust Project and teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center in New York. He lives with his wife in Manhattan.
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