A collection of the year's best essays selected by André Aciman, author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name."An essay is the child of uncertainty," André Aciman contends in his introduction to The Best American Essays 2020. "The struggle to write what one hopes is entirely true, and the long incubation every piece of writing requires of a writer who is thinking difficult thoughts, are what ultimately give the writing its depth, its ma...

'Gripping' - Telegraph'Brilliant' - Sunday Times'Riveting' - Guardian The devastating rediscovered classic written from the horrors of Nazi Germany, as one Jewish man attempts to flee persecution in the wake of Kristallnacht BERLIN, NOVEMBER 1938. With storm troopers battering against his door, Otto Silbermann must flee out the back of his own home. He emerges onto streets thrumming with violence: it is Kristallnacht, and synagogues are being burnt, Jews rounded up and their businesses des...

'Deeply moving' VOGUE'Completely blew me away!' MARC JACOBS'Beautiful and wise' COLM TOIBINA sundrenched graphic novel adaptation of one of the greatest love stories of our time.'We were friends first and lovers second. Perhaps this is what lovers are.'On the Italian Riviera, Elio welcomes his father's house guest. Oliver is the picture of arrogance - all billowing shirts and snide co...

**** 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 hi...

A new translation of Stendhal’s marvelous first novel, a sumptuous story about the tortured romance between an impoverished émigré and an upper-class young man with an agonizing secret.Twenty-year-old Octave de Malivert, ardent, impulsive, and idealistic, is so intent on preserving his purity of mind that he has sworn never to fall in love or marry. This vow is put severely to the test when he meets Armance de Zohiloff, a beautiful but impoverished Russian émigré. ...

**From the global bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name - a dazzling, sunbaked Italian summer story.'Another masterful tale of longing and desire.'Glamour'You don't so much read André Aciman's novels as tumble breathlessly into them.'The Times**We spend more time than we know trying to go back. We call it fantasising, we call it dreaming. . . but we're all crawling back, each in his or her own way.A gro...

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.' INEWSHave 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...

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 STATESMAN1960s Rome. As teenage André stands on the dock, his mother fusses over their luggage - 32 suitc...

THE BELOVED COMING-OF-AGE CLASSIC, NOW A WORLDWIDE BESTSELLERDuring a restless summer on the Italian Riviera, a powerful romance blooms between seventeen-year-old Elio and his father's house guest, Oliver. Unrelenting currents of obsession and fear, fascination and desire threaten to overwhelm the lovers who at first feign indifference to the charge between them.What grows from the depths of their souls is a romance of scarcely six weeks' duration, and an e...

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisherA Fork in the Road: Tales of Food, Pleasure and Discovery on the Road2014 James Beard Award Nominee and 2014 Society of Travel Writers Foundation Thomas Lowell Travel Journalism Bronze Award Winner for Travel BookJoin us at the table for this 34-course banquet of original stories from food-obsessed writers and chefs sharing their life-changing food experiences.

The bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with this collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works.The irrealis mood knows no boundaries between what is and what isn't, between what happened and what won't. In more ways than one, the essay about the artists, writers, and great minds gathered in this volume have nothing to do with who I am, or who they were, and my reading of them ...

This contemporary twist on Brief Encounter is a tender meditation on what might have been.'Maybe we love people because they won't let us know them.'A summer's evening in Manhattan. Nothing - not cold drinks, not showers not a stroll through the chilly aisles of an all-night drugstore - can undo the heat's hold on the city. Julian is half watching the evening news, his husband filling the dishwasher. That's when it arrives. An email with t...