Enigma Variations (UK)

Enigma Variations: André Aciman Paperback – 21 Feb. 2019 by André Aciman (Author).

'Magnificent.' New York Times
'Unforgettable.' Times Literary Supplement
'Exquisite.' New Yorker

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Call Me by Your Name and Find Me, now available to preorder in paperback.

From a youthful infatuation with a cabinet maker in a small Italian fishing village, to a passionate yet sporadic affair with a woman in New York, to an obsession with a man he meets at a tennis court, Enigma Variations charts one man's path through the great loves of his life. Paul's intense desires, losses and longings draw him closer, not to a defined orientation, but to an understanding that 'heartache, like love, like low-grade fevers, like the longing to reach out and touch a hand across the table, is easy enough to live down'.

Andre Aciman casts a shimmering light over each facet of desire, to probe how we ache, want and waver, and ultimately how we sometimes falter and let go of the very ones we want the most. We may not know what we want. We may remain enigmas to ourselves and to others. But sooner or later we discover who we've always known we were.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 288 pages
• Dimensions 129 x 198 x 17mm | 240g
• Publication date 23 May 2019
• Publisher Faber & Faber
• Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
• Language English
• Edition Statement Main
• ISBN13 9780571349692