# Roman Year: A Memoir - Hardcover

by **Andr? Aciman** (Author)

**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_, André 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.

### Author Biography

**André Aciman** is the author of _Call Me by Your Name_, _Find Me_, _Eight White Nights_, _Out of Egypt,_ _False Papers_, _Alibis_, _Harvard Square_, _Enigma Variations_, and _Homo Irrealis_, and the editor of _The Proust Project_. He teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and lives with his wife in Manhattan.

**Number of Pages:** 368

**Dimensions:** 1.4 x 9 x 6.2 IN

**Publication Date:** October 22, 2024

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