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Author: Aciman, Andre

Memoirs

Published on 22 May 2025 by FABER & FABER in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 368 pages
197 x 128 x 22 | 296g

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 . . . sensusous.’ OBSERVER’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.