Join André Aciman, internationally acclaimed and bestselling author including of the multi-million copy Call Me By Your Name, for his first London event to celebrate the publication of the second volume of his memoirs, My Roman Year.
Picking up from where Out of Egypt left off, André, his mother and younger brother find themselves exiled in Rome. André will be in conversation with Peter Kemp, the chief fiction critic of The Sunday Times.
Rome, 1960s. 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.
André Aciman
André 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, Enigma Variations, Find Me, The Gentleman From Peru, and the essay collection Homo Irrealis. He's the editor of The Proust Project and teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He lives with his wife in Manhattan.
Peter Kemp
Peter Kemp is the chief fiction critic of The Sunday Times. A former theatre reviewer for The Independent, he has reviewed fiction for the paper for over 40 years and is the author of a study of HG Wells.
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