Enigma Variations

Enigma Variations by André Aciman


ISBN
9780374148430
Published
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
288
Dimensions
147 x 215 x 25mm

André Aciman, hailed as a writer of "fiction at its most supremely interesting" (The New York Review of Books), has written a novel that charts the life of Paul whose loves remain as consuming and covetous throughout his adulthood as they were in his adolescence.

Whether in southern Italy, where as a boy he has a crush on his parents' cabinetmaker, or on a snowbound campus in New England, where his enduring passion for a girl he'll meet again and again over the years is punctuated by anonymous encounters with men; on a tennis court in Central Park, or a on a sidewalk in early-spring New York, his attachments are ungraspable, transient, and forever underwritten by raw desire-not for just one person's body but, inevitably, for someone else's as well.

In Enigma Variations, Aciman maps the most inscrutable corners of desire, proving to be an unsparing reader of the human psyche and a master stylist of contemporary literature. With language at once lyrical, bare-knuckled, and unabashedly candid, he casts a sensuous, 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 those who may want only to offer what we crave from them.

Behind every step Paul takes, his hopes, denials, fears, and regrets are ready to lay their traps. Yet the dream of love casts its luminous halo. We may not always 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.
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