PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- An absolutely beautiful and moving read! In this coming of age story Andre Aciman has created a thought provoking story of 'What if?'. Aciman perfectly captures the overwhelming intensity and confusions of first love. His writing is stunningly beautiful and unique and is unlike anything I've read before. Mary O'Sullivan
Andre Aciman was born in Alexandria, Egypt and is an American memoirist, essayist, novelist, and scholar of seventeenth-century literature. He has also written many essays and reviews on Marcel Proust. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The New Republic, Conde Nast Traveler, The Paris Review, Granta as well as in many volumes of The Best American Essays. His first novel, Call Me By Your Name, was published in 2008 and Eight White Nights was published in 2011. He teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He lives with his family in Manhattan.
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- An absolutely beautiful and moving read! In this coming of age story Andre Aciman has created a thought provoking story of 'What if?'. Aciman perfectly captures the overwhelming intensity and confusions of first love. His writing is stunningly beautiful and unique and is unlike anything I've read before. Mary O'Sullivan
This novel is hot... a love letter, an invocation, and something of an epitaph. An exceptionally beautiful book. * The New York Times Book Review * Deeply moving... I adored it. * Vogue * Humanises love in a really powerful, beautiful way. * Armie Hammer, Time Out * Extraordinary... Evocative, poetic and deeply beautiful. * Tatler * Brave, acute, elated, naked, brutal, tender, humane and beautiful. * Nicole Krauss, author of Forest Dark * As much a story of paradise found as it is of paradise lost... Extraordinary. * New York Times * A beautiful and wise book... A miracle. * Colm Toibin, author of Brooklyn *
