From the bestselling Italian-American author of Call Me By Your Name comes his latest release on regret and romance told through three novellas. Just two days after its publication, André Aciman joins us in the Main Reading Room to present Room on the Sea, yet another work that has dazzled readers with his ability to weave a love story out of thin air. The three novellas – “The Gentleman from Peru,” “Room on the Sea,” and “Mariana”—capture the breathless tumble of contemporary romance. In conversation with bestselling author Paula McLain, Aciman will delve into these small but mighty stories of ambivalent passion and unrequited attraction in the strangest of circumstances.
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About the Book
Three hypnotic novellas about obsessional love, missed connections, and enduring regret by the bestselling author of Call Me by Your Name. The short fictions in Room on the Sea deal with the heart-wrenching vicissitudes of amorous ambivalence, in André Aciman’s inimitably nostalgic, lyric style. “The Gentleman from Peru” tells the story of the life-changing encounter of a group of friends with an enigmatic solitary guest in a hotel on the Amalfi Coast. Room on the Sea is a dialogue between a man and a woman who meet on jury duty and embark on a complex relationship. “Mariana” is a modern retelling of a famous seventeenth-century novel about a love affair between a nun and a swashbuckling, unreliable aristocrat. No one writes about the ups and downs, the yeses and nos, of contemporary love like Aciman. As The Times (London) writes: ”You don’t so much read André Aciman’s novels as tumble breathlessly into them.“
About the Author
André Aciman is the author of Call Me by Your Name, Roman Year, Homo Irrealis, Find Me, Eight White Nights, Out of Egypt, False Papers, Alibis, Harvard Square, and Enigma Variations, and is the editor of The Proust Project. He teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and lives with his wife in Manhattan.
About Paula McLain
Paula McLain is the New York Times bestselling author of five novels, including The Paris Wife, Circling the Sun, and When the Stars Go Dark. Her work has appeared in Town & Country, Real Simple, O the Oprah Magazine, The Guardian, the New York Times and elsewhere. McLain is also the author of the memoir, Like Family: Growing Up in Other People’s Houses, and two collections of poetry. She lives in Cleveland with her family.
