Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere [Paperback]

FromAndr? Aciman,theNew York Timesbestselling author ofCall Me By Your Name,comes aneclecticcollection of essays on memory and exile inspired by the quiet moments of an introspective traveler

ABoston GlobeBest Nonfiction Book of the Year

Celebrated as one of the most poignant stylists of his generation, Andr? Aciman has written a luminous series of linked essays about time, place, identity, and art that show him at his very finest. From beautiful and moving pieces about the memory evoked by the scent of lavender; to meditations on cities like Barcelona, Rome, Paris, and New York; to his sheer ability to unearth life secrets from an ordinary street corner,Alibisreminds the reader that Aciman is a master of the personal essay.

A beautiful new book of essays . . . Aciman's deep fidelity to the world of the senses, and to the translation of those sensations into prose, makes Alibis a delight. The New York Times Book Review

Andr? Acimanis the author ofEight White Nights,Call Me by Your Name,Out of Egypt, andFalse Papers,and is the editor ofThe Proust Project(all published by FSG). He teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He lives with his wife and family in Manhattan.

Aciman ... has an ability to make the finest, the tiniest and most convincing distinctions between moods, responses, and registers. Everything is watched as it shifts and glitters and then hesitates and maybe is shadowed over ... This really is fiction at its most supremely interesting; every clause and subclause shimmers with a densely observed and carefully rendered invention that seems oddly and delightfully precise and convincing . Colm T?ib?n,The New York Review of Books on Call Me by Your Name

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