Eight White Nights A Novel [Paperback]

A LUSHLY ROMANTIC NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OFCALL ME BY YOUR NAME

A young man goes to a Christmas party in upper Manhattan where a woman introduces herself with three simple words: I am Clara. Over the following seven days, they meet every evening at the cinema. Overwhelmed yet cautious, he treads softly. The tension between them builds graduallymarked by ambivalence, hope, and distrustculminating in a final scene on New Year's Eve charged with magic and the passion. Andr? Aciman yet again explores human emotion with uncompromising accuracy in this piercing new novel.Eight White Nightsis a brilliant performance from a master prose stylist.

ANDR? ACIMANis the author ofCall 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.

Eight White Nights... envelop[s] the reader in its wintry spell. Jennifer Egan,The New York Times(Editors' Choice)

A modern New York City fairy tale. Time Out(New York)

A bravura re-creation of all the feints and counterfeints, yearnings and frustrations, of modern courtship. It possesses the psychological acuity and intensity one associates not just with Proust but also with Dostoyevsky. Michael Dirda,The New York Review of Books

Psychologically charged, deeply Dostoyevskian . . . original to the core. Then again, Aciman has never failed to be original. Nor is he a stranger to questions of love.  Marie Arana,The Washington Post

Aciman brilliantly continues his examination into the minefield of longing and attraction. . . . For anyone who's ever smarted from the sharp dreamlike unreality of those obsessive early stages of young love, it's a blistering quick trip down the rabbit hole. Karen l³x