The author ofCall Me by Your Namereturns with a deeply romantic memoir of his time in Rome while on the cusp of adulthood.
InRoman Year, Andr? Aciman captures the period of his adolescence that began when he and his family first set foot in Rome, after being expelled from Egypt. Though Acimans family had been well-off in Alexandria, all vestiges of their status vanished when they fled, and the author, his younger brother, and his deaf mother moved into a rented apartment in Romes Via Clelia. Though dejected, Acimans mother and brother found their way into life in Rome, while Aciman, still unmoored, burrowed into his bedroom to read one book after the other. The world of novels eventually allowed him to open up to the city and, through them, discover the beating heart of the Eternal City.
Acimans time in Rome did not last long before he and his family moved across the ocean, but by the time they did, he was leaving behind a city he loved. In this memoir, the author, a genius of the poetry of the place (John Domini,The Boston Globe), conjures the sights, smells, tastes, and people of Rome as only he can. Aciman captures, as if in amber, a living portrait of himself on the brink of adulthood and the city he worshipped at that pivotal moment.Roman Yearis a treasure, unearthed by one of our greatest prose stylists.
Andr? Acimanis the author of
Call Me by Your Name,
Find Me,
Eight White Nights,
Out of Egypt,False Papers,
Alibis,
Harvard Square,
Enigma Variations, and
Homo Irrealis, and 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.
Aciman evokes the passing of time inrich, meandering prose, rebuilding 1960s Rome in sentences suffused with light and sound and memories. . .Roman Yearis bothan affecting coming-of-lÓ#
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