‘So candid, so penetrating and so beautifully written that it can make you feel cut open, emotionally exposed.’ —Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal
Harvard Square is the elegant and sexually charged story of a young émigré grad student, a Jew from Egypt, who meets a brash, magnetic Arab taxi driver—and how their friendship tests his loyalties and throws his life in America into doubt. André Aciman’s writing has been hailed by Colm Tóibín as ‘fiction at its most supremely interesting, ‘ and here Aciman delivers a powerful tale of identity and the wages of assimilation.
Circa l’autore
André Aciman is the author of several novels including Call Me by Your Name, Find Me, and Harvard Square, the memoir Out of Egypt, and two books of essays. He is also the editor of The Proust Project. He teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he directs the Writers’ Institute. Aciman lives with his wife and family in New York City.