Bücher von André 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.

A New York Times BestsellerIn this spellbinding exploration of the varieties of love, the author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name revisits its complex and beguiling characters decades after their first meeting. No novel in recent memory has spoken more movingly to contemporary readers about the nature of love than André Aciman’s haunting Call Me by Your Name. First published in 2007, it was hailed as “a love letter, an invocation . . . an exceptionally beautiful book” (Stacey D’Erasmo, The New York Times Book Review). Nearly three quarters of a million copies have been sold, and the book became a much-loved, Academy Award–winning film starring Timothée Chalamet as the young Elio and Armie Hammer as Oliver, the graduate student with whom he falls in love. In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio’s father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, who has become a gifted classical pianist. A chance encounter on the train with a beautiful young woman upends Sami’s plans and changes his life forever.Elio soon moves to Paris, where he, too, has a consequential affair, while Oliver, now a New England college professor with a family, suddenly finds himself contemplating a return trip across the Atlantic. Aciman is a master of sensibility, of the intimate details and the emotional nuances that are the substance of passion. Find Me brings us back inside the magic circle of one of our greatest contemporary romances to ask if, in fact, true love ever dies.

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.

Never before available in hardback, this is a lavish edition of one of the greatest love stories of our time. The perfect gift for anyone captivated by Elio and Oliver. A sudden and powerful romance blossoms between Elio, an adolescent boy, and Oliver, his parents' guest, over the course of one summer. Each is unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, when, during the hot restless weeks, unrelenting currents of obsession, fascination, and desire intensify their passion and test the charged ground between them. Recklessly, the two verge toward the one thing both fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy.

From a youthful infatuation with a cabinet maker in a small Italian fishing village, to a passionate yet sporadic affair with a woman in New York, to an obsession with a man he meets at a tennis court, Enigma Variations charts one man's path through the great loves of his life. Paul's intense desires, losses and longings draw him closer, not to a defined orientation, but to an understanding that 'heartache, like love, like low-grade fevers, like the longing to reach out and touch a hand across the table, is easy enough to live down'.Andre Aciman casts a shimmering light over each facet of desire, to probe how we ache, want and waver, and ultimately how we sometimes falter and let go of the very ones we want the most. We may not know what we want. We may remain enigmas to ourselves and to others. But sooner or later we discover who we've always known we were.

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.

Das Buch zum Film: Ab 1. März 2018 im Kino Völlig überraschend trifft Elio seine erste große Liebe: Der Harvard-Absolvent Oliver ist für sechs Wochen bei Elios Familie an der italienischen Riviera zu Gast. Oliver ist weltgewandt, intelligent und schön. Er ist alles, was Elio will, vom ersten Moment an. Die Zuneigung ist gegenseitig, doch Schüchternheit und Unsicherheit veranlassen beide zur Zurückhaltung. Ein fast unerträgliches Spiel von Verführung und Zurückweisung beginnt.»Ein wunderschönes und kluges Buch … ein Wunder.« Colm Toíbín

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.