My Roman Year: From the multi-million copy bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name

FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR'Aciman pieces together a rich tapestry of human emotion in a way few other contemporary writers can match.' DAZED'Transporting . . . sensuous.' OBSERVER'Superb.' IRISH TIMES'Compelling and witty.' NEW STATESMAN1960s Rome. As teenage André stands on the dock his mother fusses over their luggage - 32 suitcases trunks and tea chests that contain their world. The ship will refuel and return to Alexandria the home where they have left their father as the Aciman family begin a new adventure in Rome. André is now head of the family with a little brother to keep in line and a mother to translate for - for although she's mute she is nothing if not communicative.Equal parts transporting and beautiful this coming of age memoir shares the luminous fragile truth of life for a family forever in exile living in Rome but still yet to find a home.