Join us for an intimate evening with André Aciman, New York Times bestselling author of Call Me by Your Name. This evening is generously hosted by Tom Healy. Books will be available for all attendees.
Perhaps most celebrated for Call Me by Your Name, adapted into an Oscar-winning film, André Aciman has spent decades exploring memory and desire across novels, memoirs, and essays. His most recent book, Room on the Sea, is a gorgeous collection of novellas about longing and missed connections.
The short fictions in Room on the Sea deal with the vicissitudes of amorous ambivalence, in Aciman’s inimitably nostalgic, lyric style. “The Gentleman from Peru” tells the story of a life-changing encounter among a group of friends with an enigmatic solitary guest at 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 an unreliable aristocrat.
About André Aciman
André Aciman is the New York Times bestselling author of Call Me by Your Name, Out of Egypt, Eight White Nights, False Papers, Alibis, Harvard Square, Enigma Variations, Find Me, Homo Irrealis, Roman Year, and Room on the Sea. He is the editor of The Proust Project and teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He lives with his wife in Manhattan.
This is a private event. Please contact Lindsay Goldenberg Jones at [email protected] for more information.
About PEN America Authors’ Evenings
PEN America Authors’ Evenings are signature fundraising events that bring together writers, filmmakers, readers, and activists and give our supporters the unique opportunity to engage with artists in an intimate setting. PEN America has hosted literary icons like Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, and Claudia Rankine as well as new generations of luminaries including former PEN America President Ayad Akhtar, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, James McBride, Lynn Nottage, Hernan Diaz, Zadie Smith, and Ben Lerner.