Enigma Variations

Enigma Variations is a novel by André Aciman that explores one man's path through his great loves, from a youthful infatuation to a passionate affair and an obsession. It examines how we ache, want, and waver, and how we sometimes falter and let go of the ones we want the most.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 21 February 2019
Publisher: Faber & Faber

'Magnificent.' New York Times
'Unforgettable.' Times Literary Supplement
'Exquisite.' New Yorker

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Call Me by Your Name and Find Me, now available to preorder in paperback.

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.

Weight: 232g
Dimension: 198 x 128 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780571349692
Edition number: Main