Enigma Variations

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Exploring love's multifaceted intensity through stories.

If you've ever pondered on the complexities of love, the different shapes it takes, and how it propels us through life, "Enigma Variations" could resonate deeply with you. André Aciman has a talent for capturing the intricacies of human emotions, crafting characters that feel both profound and relatable. This book feels like peeling back layers of the heart, discovering both the light and shadow cast by love.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Enigma Variations

Regular price RM43.95 MYR
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ISBN: 9780374148430
Authors: André Aciman
Date of Publication: 2017-01-03
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Romance
Related Topics: LGBTQ+, Contemporary Romance
Goodreads rating: 3.64
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A passionate portrait of love’s contradictory power, in five illuminating stories. Andre Aciman, who has been called “the most exciting new fiction writer of the twenty-first century” (New York Magazine), has written a novel in Enigma Variations that charts the life of Paul whose loves remain as consuming and covetous throughout adulthood as they were in adolescence. Whether in southern Italy, where as a boy he has a crush on his parents’ cabinet maker, or on a snowbound campus in New England, where his enduring passion for a girl he’ll meet again and again over the years is punctuated by anonymous encounters with men; on a tennis court in Central Park, or a sidewalk in early spring New York, his attachments are ungraspable, transient and forever underwritten by raw desire—not for just one person’s body but, inevitably, for someone else’s as well. In mapping the most inscrutable corners of desire, Aciman proves to be an unsparing reader of the human psyche and a master stylist of contemporary literature. With language at once lyrical, bare-knuckled, and unabashedly candid, he casts a sensuous, shimmering light over each facet of desire to probe how we ache, want, and waver, and ultimately how we sometimes falter and let go of those who may want only to offer what we crave from them. Behind every step the hero takes, his hopes, denials, fears, and
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Exploring love's multifaceted intensity through stories.

If you've ever pondered on the complexities of love, the different shapes it takes, and how it propels us through life, "Enigma Variations" could resonate deeply with you. André Aciman has a talent for capturing the intricacies of human emotions, crafting characters that feel both profound and relatable. This book feels like peeling back layers of the heart, discovering both the light and shadow cast by love.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.