ENIGMA VARIATIONS

André Aciman, hailed as a writer of fiction at its most supremely interesting (The New York Review of Books), has written a novel that charts the life of a man named Paul, whose loves remain as consuming and as covetous throughout his adulthood as they were in h is adolescence. Whether the setting is southern Italy, where as a boy he has a crush on his parents cabinetmaker, or a snowbound ca mpus in New England, where his enduring passion for a girl hell meet again and again over the years is punctuatedby anonymous encou nters with me...[Read more]