Enigma Variations

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Intimate exploration of fluctuating human desire.

"Enigma Variations" feels like a dive into the sea of human emotion. Andre Aciman has a way of mapping out the terrains of desire, loss, and identity with such elegance and depth that every page resonates with authenticity. Whether you've loved and lost or you're still figuring out who you are, this book captures the essence of human longing like a mirror to the soul. It might just make you see your own enigma in the reflection.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Enigma Variations

Regular price $11.90
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ISBN: 9780571349692
Authors: André Aciman
Publisher: FABER ET FABER
Date of Publication: 2019-02-06
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Romance, Contemporary, Literary Fiction
Goodreads rating: 3.64
(rated by 12280 readers)

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From a youthful infatuation with a cabinet maker in a small Italian fishing village, to a passionate yet sporadic affair with a woman in New York, to an obsession with a man he meets at a tennis court, Enigma Variations charts one man's path through the great loves of his life. Paul's intense desires, losses and longings draw him closer, not to a defined orientation, but to an understanding that 'heartache, like love, like low-grade fevers, like the longing to reach out and touch a hand across the table, is easy enough to live down'. André Aciman casts a shimmering light over each facet of desire, to probe how we ache, want and waver, and ultimately how we sometimes falter and let go of the very ones we want the most. We may not know what we want. We may remain enigmas to ourselves and to others. But sooner or later we discover who we've always known we were.
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Intimate exploration of fluctuating human desire.

"Enigma Variations" feels like a dive into the sea of human emotion. Andre Aciman has a way of mapping out the terrains of desire, loss, and identity with such elegance and depth that every page resonates with authenticity. Whether you've loved and lost or you're still figuring out who you are, this book captures the essence of human longing like a mirror to the soul. It might just make you see your own enigma in the reflection.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.