Museo de Tronquito, El by Ashild Kanstad Johnsen

Museo de Tronquito, El by Ashild Kanstad Johnsen

The author of>Call Me by Your Name returns with a deeply romantic memoir of his time in Rome while on the cusp of adulthood.

In>Roman Year, Andr Aciman captures the period of his adolescence that began when he and his family first set foot in Rome, after being expelled from Egypt. Though Aciman's family had been well-off in Alexandria, all vestiges of their status vanished when they fled, and the author, his younger brother, and his deaf mother moved into a rented apartment in Rome's Via Clelia. Though dejected, Aciman's mother and brother found their way into life in Rome, while Aciman, still unmoored, burrowed into his bedroom to read one book after the other. The world of novels eventually allowed him to open up to the city and, through them, discover the beating heart of the Eternal City.

Aciman's time in Rome did not last long before he and his family moved across the ocean, but by the time they did, he was leaving behind a city he loved. In this memoir, the author, a genius of the poetry of the place (John Domini, The Boston Globe), conjures the sights, smells, tastes, and people of Rome as only he can. Aciman captures, as if in amber, a living portrait of himself on the brink of adulthood and the city he worshipped at that pivotal moment. Roman Year is a treasure, unearthed by one of our greatest prose stylists.

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ISBN 13	9788416440665
ISBN 10	8416440662
Title	Museo de Tronquito, El
Author	Ashild Kanstad Johnsen
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Publisher	Batiscafo
Year published	2023-07-11
Number of pages	48
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