Description
Across five interlocking stories, a lifelong seeker named Paul moves through changing places and seasons—southern Italy, a snowbound New England campus, Central Park, and the shifting streets of New York—only to find that desire refuses to stay put. His loves, at once consuming and elusive, reveal how attachment can be both luminous and destabilizing, shaped by longing for a particular person while also reaching, inevitably, toward someone else. With lyrical intensity and unflinching candor, the novel explores themes of obsession, memory, self-deception, and the complicated negotiations between what we want and what we can admit. In André Aciman’s signature style—sensuous, psychologically sharp, and masterfully contemporary—each encounter becomes a variation on the same enigma: how love can illuminate us even as it exposes our contradictions.
Available Editions
paperback
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published Jan 1, 2017
266 pages
ISBN: 9780374148430
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First Published
2017
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Enigma Variations by André Aciman.