In these fourteen essays Andre Aciman, one of the most poignant stylists of his generation, dissects the experience of loss, moving from his forced departure from Alexandria as a teenager, though his brief stay in Europe and finally to the home he's made (and half invented) on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
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Grasping Aciman’s attention to precise diction and a sentence’s cadence requires only reading a page of his many essays, his memoir of childhood in Alexandria, Egypt, or his fiction—including his 2007 debut novel, Call Me By Your Name, which last year was made into an Oscar-winning film.
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Andre Aciman was born on January 2, 1951 and was raised and born in Alexandria, Egypt. He was born to Regine and Henri N. Aciman; his mother was deaf and his father owned a knitting factory. Aciman grew up in a home that spoke French, and other family members spoke languages such as Arabic, Italian, Latino, and Greek.
Andre Aciman is a memoirist and essayist whose works include Out of Egypt and False Papers.Born in Alexandria, Egypt, he has also lived in France and Italy. Aciman serves as Chair of Comparative Literature at The CUNY Graduate Center and Director of The Writers' Institute at The Graduate Center.
Find Me is a continuation of Elio and Oliver's romance, which began in Andre Aciman's 2007 novel Call Me By Your Name. I'd call it more of an extended epilogue than a sequel. An extended book review of this new release will be available to Keeper Upperers at Keeping Up With The Penguins book blog.
Set in Alexandria, this classic and much-loved memoir chronicles the exploits of Andre Aciman's colourful Sephardic Jewish family from its arrival in Egypt at the turn of the century to its forced departure three generations later. Aciman tells a story of childhood innocence, of intricate family life and the pain of exile from a place one loves.
The tragedy of feeling out of place and in the wrong time is at the aching heart of Aciman’s writing, and on grand display in two new books published this year: Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere and his third novel, Harvard Square. The tragedy of his displacement, however, does not create victims.
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.
In Aciman’s world, individuals discover new parts of themselves through wide-ranging romantic and sexual encounters across genders. Aciman’s exploration of queer sexuality and all-consuming desire played out in his first novel, 2007’s Call Me by Your Name. The book has enjoyed a resurgence of interest, thanks to the Oscar-winning film by.