Enigma Variations

✍ Scribed by André Aciman

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 174 KB
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0374714770

✦ Synopsis

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 a man named Paul, whose loves remain as consuming and as covetous throughout his adulthood as they were in his adolescence. Whether the setting is southern
Italy, where as a boy he has a crush on his parents' cabinetmaker, or 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; whether he's on a tennis court in Central Park, or on a New York sidewalk in early spring, 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 passion, proving to be an unsparing
reader of the human psyche and a master stylist. With...