Bücher von Andre Aciman

Now a major motion picture! During a restless summer on the Italian Riviera, a powerful romance blooms between seventeen-year-old Elio and his father's house guest, Oliver. Unrelenting currents of obsession and fear, fascination and desire threaten to overwhelm the lovers who at first feign indifference to the charge between them. What grows from the depths of their souls is a romance of scarcely six weeks' duration, and an experience that marks them for a lifetime. For what the two discover on the Riviera and during a sultry evening in Rome is the one thing they both already fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy.

In this spellbinding new exploration of the varieties of love, the author of Call Me by Your Name lets us back into his characters' lives years after their first meeting. Elio has left behind his first love. Now a classical pianist living in Paris, he believes his youthful desires are behind him - yet after a glancing encounter at a chamber music concert, he once again finds himself falling for an older man. As their affair intensifies, his thoughts turn to the past, and to Oliver, whose presence in Elio's heart has never dimmed. Oliver, a college professor, husband and father, is preparing to leave New York. The imminent departure stirs up longing and regret, awakening an old desire and propelling him towards a decision that could change everything. In Call Me By Your Name, we fell in love with Oliver and Elio and their powerful, irrevocable romance. Now, André Aciman invites us to return to his unforgettable characters, exploring how love can ripple out from the past into the future.

"A memoir of the author's time in Rome after his family was made to leave Egypt, before moving to America"--

Eine lebenslustige jüdische Großfamilie aus allen Ecken der Welt. In Alexandria kommen sie zusammen, zanken, necken, befehden und versöhnen sich in einem halben Dutzend Sprachen. Sie sind Bankiers, Kaufleute, Faulenzer und Träumer, die hier ihr Paradies gefunden haben. Die beiden Großväter trauen einander nicht über den Weg, die Großmütter unterhalten eine damenhafte Freundschaft, während der schwindelnde Großonkel philosophische Fragen zu stellen pflegt.Die Ankunft der aus Nazideutschland geflüchteten Tante lässt erste Wolken aufziehen, und bald lauscht alles auf das Vorrücken von Rommels Panzern. Doch die Lebensfreude lässt die Familie sich nicht nehmen. Sie lebt und liebt, bis sie vom Wind der politischen Ereignisse wieder zerstreut wird.

The bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with this collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works. The irrealis mood knows no boundaries between what is and what isn't, between what happened and what won't.