Separate Rooms by Pier Vittorio Tondelli
Leo is an Italian writer in his thirties. Thomas, his German lover, is dead. On a plane to Munich, Thomas?s home town, Leo slips into a reverie of their meeting and life in Paris, nights in Thomas?s flat in Montmartre and a desperate, drug-induced flight through the forests of northern France that spells the end for Leo and Thomas? languid, erotic life together. Leo travels to find anonymity. Structured in three musical movements, Separate Rooms is a story of ideal love, broken by absence and separation. When Thomas was alive, he and Leo had separate rooms in order to preserve the urgency of their passion. Now, Leo faces solitude, the impossible striving of memory to recreate life and the hostility of a prejudiced world. Separate Rooms, Tondelli?s last book, is a powerful novel of the strength of love and the trauma of death.
?A novel of dignified beauty? Observer Books of the Year ?Tondelli?s was a meticulous talent, precise and particular, his writing full of nicely observed detail and an almost microscopic view of everyday things and feelings? Financial Times ?A masterly piece of writing, rich with insight and detail, and a curiously moving optimism? Gay Times
Born in the Po Valley in 1955, Pier Vittorio Tondelli died of AIDS in Milan in 1991. The author of four novels and a collection of short stories, Tondelli was recognized as one of the most gifted Italian writers of his generation. Separate Rooms is the only book of Tondelli's fiction to be translated into English.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781852427771 |
| ISBN 10 | 1852427779 |
| Title | Separate Rooms |
| Author | Pier Vittorio Tondelli |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Profile Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2004-12-01 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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