Room on the Sea: Three Novellas - André Aciman

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nThree hypnotic novellas about obsessional love, missed connections, and enduring regret by the bestselling author of Call Me by Your Name. n nNo one writes about the ups and downs, the yeses and noes, of contemporary love like André Aciman. As Johanna Thomas-Corr wrote in The Times (London): You don't so much read André Aciman's novels as tumble breathlessly into them. n nIn Room on the Sea, Aciman offers three heart-wrenching tales of amorous ambivalence, all of which unfold in his inimitably nostalgic style. The Gentleman from Peru tells the story of the life-changing encounter between a group of friends and an enigmatic solitary guest in a hotel on the Amalfi Coast. Room on the Sea is a dialogue between a man and a woman who meet on jury duty and embark on a complex relationship. Mariana is a modern retelling of a famous seventeenth-century novel about a love affair between a nun and a swashbuckling, unreliable aristocrat. Together, Aciman's novellas form a complex portrait of desire, and of love realized and lost.n