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Roman Year: A Memoir
Picking up where his previous memoir, Out of Egypt, left off, this is a brilliant coming-of-age tale detailing the author's yearlong exile in a foreign city. Aciman expertly relates the smells, the sounds, and the books that introduced him to a brand-new world.
The author of Call Me by Your Name returns with a deeply romantic memoir of his time in Rome while on the cusp of adulthood.
In Roman Year, André Aciman captures the period of his adolescence that began when he and his family first set foot in Rome, after being expelled from Egypt. Though Aciman’s family had been well-off in Alexandria, all vestiges of their status vanished when they fled, and the author, his younger brother, and his deaf mother moved into a rented apartment in Rome’s Via Cl...