books by Andre Aciman (jan-22-2008 passionate elsewhere)

books by Andre Aciman

books:

The Light of New York
Andre Aciman

Assouline Publishing, 2007

How to capture the City That Never Sleeps in chilling moments of serenity? Award winning photographer Jean-Michel Berts does just that in this epic visual showpiece of to the world greatest city. At dawn, the streets of New York resonate with a life of its own: muted, subdued, and mysterious. That s precisely the moment in which Berts has elected to capture it. The City s greatest landmarks and views are captured here like they never have been ...

Out of Egypt: A Memoir
André Aciman

Picador, 2007

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 ...

Journey Into the Past (New York Review Books Classics)
Stefan Zweig

NYRB Classics, 2010

A deep study of the uneasy heart by one of the masters of the psychological novel, Journey into the Past , published here for the first time in America, is a novella that was found among Zweig’s papers after his death. Investigating the strange ways in which love, in spite of everything—time, war, betrayal—can last, Zweig tells the story of Ludwig, an ambitious young man from a modest background who falls in love with the wife of his rich ...

Call Me by Your Name: A Novel
André Aciman

Picador, 2008

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year A Washington Post Best Fiction Book of the Year A New York Magazine “Future Canon” Selection A Chicago Tribune Favorite Book of the Year One of The Seattle Times ’ Michael Upchurch’s Favorite Books of the Year An Amazon Top 100 Editors’ Picks of the Year An Amazon Top 10 Editors’ pick: Debut Fiction (#6) An Amazon Top 10 ...

Monsieur Proust (New York Review Books Classics)
Celeste Albaret

NYRB Classics, 2003

Céleste Albaret was Marcel Proust's housekeeper in his last years, when he retreated from the world to devote himself to In Search of Lost Time . She could imitate his voice to perfection, and Proust himself said to her, "You know everything about me." Her reminiscences of her employer present an intimate picture of the daily life of a great writer who was also a deeply peculiar man, while Madame Albaret herself proves to be a shrewd and ...

Letters of Transit: Reflections on Exile, Identity, Language, and Loss

New Press, The, 2000

"Moving, deeply introspective and honest" ( Publishers Weekly ) reflections on exile and memory from five award-winning authors. All of the authors in Letters of Transit have written award-winning works on exile, home, and memory, using the written word as a tool for revisiting their old homes or fashioning new ones. Now in paperback are five newly commissioned essays offering moving distillations of their most important thinking on these ...

Harvard Square: A Novel
André Aciman

W. W. Norton & Company, 2013

A powerful tale of love, friendship, and becoming American in late ’70s Cambridge from the best-selling novelist. André Aciman has been hailed as "the most exciting new fiction writer of the twenty-first century" ( New York magazine), a "brilliant chronicler of the disconnect…between who we are and who we wish we might have been" ( Wall Street Journal ), and a writer of "fiction at its most supremely interesting" (Colm Tóibín). Now, ...

Eight White Nights: A Novel
André Aciman

Picador, 2011

A LUSHLY ROMANTIC NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF CALL ME BY YOUR NAME A young man goes to a Christmas party in upper Manhattan where a woman introduces herself with three simple words: “I am Clara.” Over the following seven days, they meet every evening at the cinema. Overwhelmed yet cautious, he treads softly. The tension between them builds gradually—marked by ambivalence, hope, and distrust—culminating in a final scene on New ...

Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere
André Aciman

Picador, 2012

A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011 Celebrated as one of the most poignant stylists of his generation, André Aciman has written a luminous series of linked essays about time, place, identity, and art that show him at his very finest. From beautiful and moving pieces about the memory evoked by the scent of lavender; to meditations on cities like Barcelona, Rome, Paris, and New York; to his sheer ability to unearth life secrets ...

The Proust Project

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004

"Discovering Proust is like wandering through a totally unfamiliar land and finding it peopled with kindred spirits and sister souls and fellow countrymen . . . They speak our language, our dialect, share our blind-spots and are awkward in exactly the same way we are, just as their manner of lacing every access of sorrow with slapstick reminds us so much of how we do it when we are sad and wish to hide it, that surely we are not alone and not as ...

Tell Me True: Memoir, History, and Writing a Life

Borealis Books, 2011

In this landmark collection, Patricia Hampl and Elaine Tyler May have gathered fourteen original essays from award-winning memoirists and historians. They are all storytellers, wrestling with a fascinating gray area where memory intersects with history and where the necessities of narrative collide with mundane facts. and whether the record emerges from archival sources or from personal memory, these writers show how to make the leap to telling ...

Entrez: Signs of France
André Aciman

Artisan, 2001

The signs of France are a gateway into a country proud of its artistic heritage—a past that reveals itself in every nuance of daily life. Steven Rothfeld has been recording these images for decades, capturing the milky cornflower blues and faded yellows, the hand-lettered, the neatly printed, even signs made from blown glass and wooden carvings. Their uniqueness and the beauty and sensibility of these signs reflect the visual sense of ...

Secular Spirituality: Passionate Journey to a Rational Judaism
Dan Cohn-Sherbok, Joseph Chuman, ...

International Institute for Secular Humanisitic Judaism, 2003

More than half the people in the Western world lead non-- religious, secular lives. And many of these non-- religious people are seeking spirituality. Can you have spirituality without being religious? Can you have spirituality and still be rational? Is there an ethical dimension to spirituality? Do beauty and the arts fit into spirituality? Are science and spirituality in conflict? Can we learn from the mysticism of the past? Do Zionism and ...

PEN America Issue 2: Home and Away (PEN America: A Journal for Writers and Readers), ...

PEN American Center, 2001

Home & Away features tributes to James Baldwin, Flannery O'Connor, and Marcel Proust alongside writing by Amy Hempel, Julio Cortazar, Amitav Ghosh, Anne Carson, and W. G. Sebald. PEN members reflect on what great books have never been translated into English.

False Papers
André Aciman

Picador, 2001

In these fourteen essays Andre Aciman, one of the most poignant stylists of his generation, dissects the experience of loss, moving from his forced departure from Alexandria as a teenager, though his brief stay in Europe and finally to the home he's made (and half invented) on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

The Odyssey of the Bear: The Making of the Film by Jean-Jacques Annaud
Josee Benabent-Loiseau

Newmarket Press, 1990

How on earth did they do it? This behind-the-scenes diary reconstructs director Jean-Jacques Annaud's amazing undertaking-six years of preparation, nineteen wild weeks of filing in the Italian Alps with 180 crew members, a cast of three actors, twenty-three bears and hundreds of other animals including pumas, deer, horses, dogs, fish, birds, frogs, and even insects. Showing the sometimes dangerous, sometimes humorous situations of working with ...