Giovanni's Room

<p><b>One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'</b><br><br><b>Baldwin's ground-breaking second novel</b><b> which established</b><b> him </b><b>as</b><b> one of the great American writers of his time</b><br><br>David a young American in 1950s Paris is waiting for his fiancée to return from vacation in Spain. But when he meets Giovanni a handsome Italian barman the two men are drawn into an intense affair. After three months David's fiancée returns and denying his true nature he rejects Giovanni for a 'safe' future as a married man. His decision eventually brings tragedy. <br><br> Filled with passion regret and longing this story of a fated love triangle has become a landmark of gay writing. James Baldwin caused outrage as a black author writing about white homosexuals yet for him the issues of race sexuality and personal freedom were eternally intertwined.<br><br>'Exquisite... a feat of fire-breathing imaginative daring' <i>Guardian</i><br><br>'Excruciating beauty' <i>San Francisco Chronicle <br></i><br>'Audacious... remarkable... elegant and courageous' Caryl Phillips</p>