Andre Aciman: Eight White Nights

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Aciman’s debut novel, Call Me by Your Name, confirmed his reputation as a masterful prose stylist. His new novel tells the story of an unnamed narrator’s obsession with a fascinating and unreachable woman.

A man in his late twenties goes to a large Christmas party in Manhattan where a woman introduces herself with three words: “I am Clara.” Over the following seven days, they meet every evening at the same cinema. The tension between them builds gradually, marked by ambivalence, hope, and distrust. As Aciman explores their emotions with uncompromising accuracy and sensuous prose, they move both closer together and farther apart, culminating on New Year’s Eve in a final scene charged with magic and the promise of renewal.

Call Me by Your Name, Aciman’s debut novel, established him as one of the finest writers of our time, an expert at the most sultry depictions of longing and desire.

“The beauty of Aciman’s writing and the purity of his passions should place this extraordinary first novel within the canon of great romantic love stories for everyone.” — The Washington Post Book World