Bøker av André Aciman

Now a major motion picture! During 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 experience that marks them for a lifetime. For what the two discover on the Riviera and during a sultry evening in Rome is the one thing they both already fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy.

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 meetingIn 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 New York Times BestsellerIn 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 as the young Elio and Armie Hammer as Oliver, the graduate student with whom he falls in love. In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio’s father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, who has become a gifted classical pianist. A chance encounter on the train with a beautiful young woman upends Sami’s plans and changes his life forever.Elio soon moves to Paris, where he, too, has a consequential affair, while Oliver, now 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 emotional nuances that are the substance of passion. Find Me brings us back inside the magic circle of one of our greatest contemporary romances to ask if, in fact, true love ever dies.

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.

From a youthful infatuation with a cabinet maker in a small Italian fishing village, to a passionate yet sporadic affair with a woman in New York, to an obsession with a man he meets at a tennis court, Enigma Variations charts one man's path through the great loves of his life. Paul's intense desires, losses and longings draw him closer, not to a defined orientation, but to an understanding that 'heartache, like love, like low-grade fevers, like the longing to reach out and touch a hand across the table, is easy enough to live down'.Andre Aciman casts a 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 the very ones we want the most. We may not 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.

From 'the most exciting new fiction writer of the 21st century' (New York Magazine) comes Eight White Nights, a sparkling and 'wonderfully romantic' (The Times) Christmas novel.

Kultroman om en uventet, intens sommerforelskelse Elio tilbringer sommeren sammen med foreldrene i et gammelt hus på den italienske rivieraen. Der slumrer han i varmen, leser, spiller piano, flørter med jentene. Men da familiens sommergjest Oliver kommer, oppstår det følelser i Elio som han ikke er forberedt på, og de to begir seg ut på et sommereventyr de aldri vil glemme. Og ditt navn er mitt er en fortelling om uventet, intens kjærlighet uavhengig av kjønn og alder. Sanselig og utilslørt skildrer Andre Aciman hva som kan skje mellom to mennesker som berører hverandre på det dypeste - og hvordan kompliserte følelser også er de enkleste.

Etterlengtet, vakker oppfølger til kultboken "Og ditt navn er mitt" ("Call me by your name") Da Samuel tar toget fra Firenze til Roma for å besøke sønnen Elio, kommer han i prat med en ung, distré kvinne. Møtet skal forandre livet hans for alltid. I Roma treffer Elio en eldre mann på en klassisk konsert. Han blir dypt betatt av mannens utstråling, erfaringer og verdensvanthet. Men kanskje er det mest fordi mannen vekker minner om en tidligere kjærlighet. Oliver er godt etablert i USA, med forskerstilling og en god familie. Likevel lengter han innerst inne etter noen fra fortiden. I "Finn meg" utforsker Andre Aciman kjærlighet, begjær og den dype kontakten som kan finnes mellom mennesker, ved første møte eller etter mange års fravær. På mesterlig vis skildrer han hvordan lidenskapen - til musikken, litteraturen og livet selv - styrer oss når vi lar den slippe til. Og under det hele ligger spørsmålet om ekte kjærlighet noensinne dør. "Finn meg" er den frittstående oppfølgeren til "Og ditt navn er mitt" ("Call me by your name", 2007), boken som fikk umiddelbar kultstatus da den ble filmatisert i 2017. Like sanselig og vakker, og like elegant skrevet.

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 returns to the essay form in Homo Irrealis to explore what time means to artists who cannot grasp life in the present. Irrealis moods are not about the present or the past or the future; they are about what might have been but never was but could in theory still happen. From meditations on subway poetry and the temporal resonances of an empty Italian street to considerations of the lives and work of Sigmund Freud, C. P. Cavafy, W. G. Sebald, John Sloan, Éric Rohmer, Marcel Proust, and Fernando Pessoa and portraits of cities such as Alexandria and St. Petersburg, Homo Irrealis is a deep reflection on the imagination's power to forge a zone outside of time's intractable hold.