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Summary of André Aciman's Out of Egypt
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Uncle Vili was a proud Italian who had served in the Italian army during World War I. He was always bragging about his service, and he took credit for everything, down to the unforeseen brilliance of his most hapless schemes. #2 Uncle Vili knew how to convey that intangible though unmistakable feeling that he had lineage, which came with the suggestion of wealth. He was intolerant of poor posture and bad table manners, and he detested what he called the atavisms by which Jews gave themselves away. #3 Vili was a brilliant peddler, and after the war, he was given a Georgian estate in Surrey, where he lived in lordly penury under the assumed name of Dr. H. M. Spingarn. He was as devoted to Il Duce as he was to the Pope. #4 He was a consummate marksman, a remarkable athlete, a shrewd businessman, and a relentless womanizer. He would use this phrase after negotiating a difficult transaction: Didn’t I warn them.
Summary of André Aciman's Out of Egypt
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 Uncle Vili was a proud Italian who had served in the Italian army during World War I. He was always bragging about his service, and he took credit for everything, down to the unforeseen brilliance of his most hapless schemes. #2 Uncle Vili knew how to convey that intangible though unmistakable feeling that he had lineage, which came with the suggestion of wealth. He was intolerant of poor posture and bad table manners, and he detested what he called the atavisms by which Jews gave themselves away. #3 Vili was a brilliant peddler, and after the war, he was given a Georgian estate in Surrey, where he lived in lordly penury under the assumed name of Dr. H. M. Spingarn. He was as devoted to Il Duce as he was to the Pope. #4 He was a consummate marksman, a remarkable athlete, a shrewd businessman, and a relentless womanizer. He would use this phrase after negotiating a difficult transaction: Didn’t I warn them.
Find Me
A New York Times Bestseller In this spellbinding exploration of the varieties of love, the author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name revisits its complex and beguiling characters decades after their first meeting. No novel in recent memory has spoken more movingly to contemporary readers about the nature of love than André Aciman’s haunting Call Me by Your Name. First published in 2007, it was hailed as “a love letter, an invocation . . . an exceptionally beautiful book” (Stacey D’Erasmo, The New York Times Book Review). Nearly three quarters of a million copies have been sold, and the book became a much-loved, Academy Award–winning film starring Timothée Chalamet a...
False Papers
Essays on memory by the author of Our of Egypt "We remember not because we have something we wish to go back to, nor because memories are all we have. We remember because memory is our most intimate, most familiar gesture. Most people are convinced I love Alexandria. In truth, I love remembering Alexandria. For it is not Alexandria that is beautiful. Remembering is beautiful." Celebrated as one of the most poignant stylists of his generation, André Aciman has written a witty, surprising series of linked essays that ponder the experience of loss, moving from his forced departure from Alexandria as a teenager, through his brief stay in Europe, and finally to the home he's made (and half invented) on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
Room on the Sea
FROM THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF CALL ME BY YOUR NAME 'A top-notch beach read.' DAILY MAIL 'Absorbing.' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'The perfect escapist read.' INEWS Have you ever had the sense that maybe all lives are nothing more than the chronicle of countless stinging might-have-beens that continue to haunt us? In the scorching New York heat, a hundred people wait to be selected as jurors. Paul is reading a newspaper. Catherine is reading a novel. So begins a whirlwind flirtation: over cappuccinos in Manhattan and gallery trips to Chelsea, Paul and Catherine escape into the illusion of an Italian getaway. Their feelings quickly evolve into something deeper, something - as mature adu...
Alibis
A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011 Celebrated as one of the most poignant stylists of his generation, André 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, Alibis reminds the reader that Aciman is a master of the personal essay.
Roman Year
The author of Call Me by Your Name returns with a deeply romantic memoir of his time in Rome while on the cusp of adulthood. In Roman Year, André 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 Aciman’s 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 Rome’s Via Clelia. Though dejected, Aciman’s 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 e...
Homo Irrealis
The New York Times–bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with his collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works Irrealis moods are a category of verbal moods that indicate that certain events have not happened, may never happen, or should or must or are indeed desired to happen, but for which there is no indication that they will ever happen. Irrealis moods are also known as counterfactual moods and include the conditional, the subjunctive, the optative, and the imperative—all best expressed in this book as the might-be and the might-have-been. One of the great prose stylists of his generation, André Aciman return...
My Roman Year
FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'Aciman pieces together a rich tapestry of human emotion in a way few other contemporary writers can match.' DAZED 'Transporting . . . sensuous.' OBSERVER 'Superb.' IRISH TIMES 'Compelling and witty.' NEW STATESMAN 1960s Rome. As teenage André stands on the dock, his mother fusses over their luggage - 32 suitcases, trunks and tea chests that contain their world. The ship will refuel and return to Alexandria, the home where they have left their father, as the Aciman family begin a new adventure in Rome. André is now head of the family, with a little brother to keep in line and a mother to translate for - for although she's mute, she is nothing if not communicative. Equal parts transporting and beautiful, this coming of age memoir shares the luminous, fragile truth of life for a family forever in exile, living in Rome, but still yet to find a home.
Find Me
** THE GENTLEMAN FROM PERU - THE NEW NOVEL FROM ANDRE ACIMAN - IS AVAILABLE NOW** In this spellbinding new exploration of the varieties of love, the author of Call Me by Your Name lets us back into his characters' lives years after their first meeting In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio's father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, now a gifted classical pianist. A chance encounter on the train upends Sami's visit and changes his life forever. Elio soon moves to Paris, where he, too, has a consequential affair, while Oliver, a New England college professor with a family, suddenly finds himself contemplating a return trip across the Atlantic. Aciman is a master of sensibility, of the intimate details and the nuances of emotion that are the substance of passion. Find Me brings us back inside the world of one of our greatest contemporary romances to show us that in fact true love never dies.
