André Aciman
Author
Series
Call me by your name novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' house, a cliff-side mansion on the Italian Riviera. Unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, at first each feigns indifference to the other. But during the warm, languorous summer weeks that follow, unrelenting buried currents of obsession and fear, fascination and desire, intensify their passion...
2) Encuéntrame
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"En 2018, el mundo entero se conmovió con el amor de verano entre Elio y Oliver. Llámame por tu nombre, publicada originalmente más de diez años antes, se convirtió en un fenómeno gracias a la película estrenada aquel año. Y este relato de deseo, descubrimiento, pasión y veladas infinitas llegó a miles de lectores que, con el corazón en vilo, esperan conocer cómo concluye esta historia. Por fin, en Encuéntrame, vuelven Elio y Oliver....
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A man in his late twenties goes to a large Christmas party in Manhattan where a woman introduces herself with three words: "I am Clara." Over the following seven days, they meet every evening at the same cinema. Overwhelmed yet cautious, he treads softly and won't hazard a move. The tension between them builds gradually, marked by ambivalence, hope, and distrust. They move both closer together and farther apart, culminating on New Year's Eve in a...
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
Un viaje por los rincones más profundos de los sentimientos y del erotismo. Llámame por tu nombre ha sido galardonada con el Lambda Literary Award, mejor Libro del Año según The Washington Post y Publishers Weekly y es la novela en la que se basa la película Call me by your name . En una localidad de la costa de Italia, durante la década de los ochenta, la familia de Elio instauró la tradición de recibir en el verano a estudiantes o creadores...
Author
Publisher
Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
This richly colored memoir chronicles the exploits of a flamboyant Jewish family, from its bold arrival in cosmopolitan Alexandria to its defeated exodus three generations later. In elegant and witty prose, André Aciman introduces us to the marvelous eccentrics who shaped his life--Uncle Vili, the strutting daredevil, soldier, salesman, and spy; the two grandmothers, the Princess and the Saint, who gossip in six languages; Aunt Flora, the German...
7) Olivia
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"Dorothy Strachey's classic Olivia captures the awakening passions of an English adolescent sent away for a year to a small finishing school outside Paris. The innocent but watchful Olivia develops an infatuation for her headmistress, Mlle. Julie, and through this screen of love observes the tense romance between Mlle. Julie and the other head of the school, Mlle. Cara, in its final months"--
Publisher
Rizzoli New York
Pub. Date
c2015.
Language
English
Description
"World monuments presents fifty of the world's most compelling destinations, cultural heritage sites, and significant architectural works that must be seen and preserved. In commemoration of its fiftieth anniversary, World Monuments Fund has commissioned eight of todays' most important writers... Each essay explores a specific place and theme relating to WMF's history and the challenges of its conservation work: Anne Applebaum writes about war and...
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"From a critically acclaimed group of writers comes an essay collection about what they wish they could share with their mothers--the hilarious, the painful, the awkward, and the downright messy. Raw and poignant, this is an anthology that will resonate with anyone who's ever had a mother." -- Back cover.
"As an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an essay about being abused by her stepfather. It took her more than a decade to realize...
Publisher
Frick Collection in association with DelMonico Books - D.A.P. New York
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
An exploration of the artworks of The Frick Collection by a group of contemporary writers, artists and other cultural figures, from George Condo, Lydia Davis and Lena Dunham to Abbi Jacobson and Edmund White. Includes 61 reflections, with the contributors writing about an artwork that has personal significance, sharing how it has moved, challenged, puzzled or inspired them. Each text is accompanied by an illustration of the artwork.
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