The sudden and powerful attraction between a teenage boy and a summer guest at his parents' house on the Italian Riviera has a profund and lasting influence that will mark them both for a lifetime, in a novel of obsession, passion, fear, and desire.
Klappentext
This heartrending elegy to human passion is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents house, a cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera.
Biografie
André Aciman, geb. 1951 in Alexandria, studierte Komparatistik in Harvard. Er ist Romancier, Essayist und Dozent für Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, zudem schreibt er für verschiedene New Yorker Zeitungen. Aciman gehört zu den führenden Proust-Experten. Aciman lebt mit seiner Familie in New York.
