In this spellbinding exploration of the varieties of love, the author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name revisits its complex and beguiling characters decades after their first meeting.

In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio’s father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, who has become a gifted classical pianist. A chance encounter on the train with a beautiful young woman upends Sami’s plans and changes his life forever.

Elio soon moves to Paris, where he, too, has a consequential affair, while Oliver, now a New England college professor with a family, suddenly finds himself contemplating a return trip across the Atlantic.

Aciman is a master of sensibility, of the intimate details and the emotional nuances that are the substance of passion. Find Me brings us back inside the magic circle of one of our greatest contemporary romances to ask if, in fact, true love ever dies.

Set in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel by Amitav Ghosh tells the story of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of political and social chaos, who goes on to create an empire in the Burmese teak forest.

When soldiers force the royal family out of the Glass Palace and into exile, Rajkumar befriends Dolly, a young woman in the court of the Burmese Queen, whose love will shape his life. He cannot forget her, and years later, as a rich man, he goes in search of her.

The struggles that have made Burma, India, and Malaya the places they are today are illuminated in this wonderful novel.

Will Barrett is a twenty-five-year-old wanderer from the South, living in New York City, detached from his roots and with no plans for the future. But everything changes when he purchases a telescope, setting off a romance that will alter the course of his life forever.

Will's journey takes him from the bustling streets of New York to the heart of the Mississippi Delta, where he becomes entangled with the eccentric Vaught family. His unexpected role as caretaker for the family's ailing son, Jamie, challenges him to confront his personal demons.

Amidst these challenges, Will discovers a profound love for Jamie's sister, Kitty, and forges a deepening relationship with the Vaught family. Through these connections, he learns the true meaning of home and belonging.

Il primo libro di narrativa di Baricco: il romanzo è ambientato nell'Ottocento, in una cittadina immaginaria, Quinnipak. È generoso nel presentare storie e personaggi, ciascuno con i suoi sogni e caratteri. E tra questi ci sono il signore e la signora Rail, che si amano di un amore tutto loro, e il bambino Penth con il suo amico Pekisch, e due bande che partono dagli estremi del paese per incontrarsi.

La narrazione è costruita come un montaggio cinematografico e orchestrata come una partitura musicale.