My Roman Year with André Aciman
Tue 15 Oct 2024
7:00pm at Walcot House, 90B Walcot St, Bath BA1 5BG
Book + Ticket gives you a free ticket with a copy of the book, all tickets include 15% off any books purchased on the night, author talk, Q&A and signing.
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We couldn’t be more excited to welcome the bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name, André Aciman, to discuss his stunning new memoir, My Roman Year.
This deeply passionate journey is told through André‘s poignant memories of his family, who when expelled from Egypt, found themselves refugees seeking a home of their own in the vast soot-lined streets of Rome. Written with his signature vibrant and emotive prose, My Roman Year will transport you to the city he soon fell in love with, where “there were colours everywhere, everything and everyone was beautiful.”
André Aciman is the author of several novels including the multi-million copy bestselling novel Call Me By Your Name, adapted for film in 2017 starring Timothée Chalamet, the more recent The Gentleman From Peru, as well as an earlier award-winning memoir, Out of Egypt.
About the book:
Rome, 1964. As 13 year old André stands at the foot of the gangway to the ship, 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. 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.