Separate Rooms

This Pride Month read the forgotten Italian queer classic, perfect for fans of Call Me By Your Name
A new edition of a lost classic of twentieth-century Italian literature: Tondelli's last book is a powerful novel about the strength of love and the trauma of death.

Your next Pride Month read: the rediscovered gay cult classic, published in English for the first time in thirty years
'Is this overlooked Italian novel the new Call Me by Your Name? A classic of Italian gay fiction . the whole thing is bathed in elegiac pathos'
SUNDAY TIMES

'An Italian novel of imperfect love and urgent grief'
NEW YORK TIMES

'Beautiful and poignant'
THE TIMES

'A stunning novel . prepare to be deeply moved'
JACK PARLETT, author of Fire Island

'A discreet, lyrical meditation on the nature of male love'
EDMUND WHITE

With an introduction by André Aciman, bestselling author of Call Me by Your Name

Thomas, a young German musician, is dying. His older boyfriend, a renowned Italian writer named Leo, finds it impossible to watch the slow and inevitable demise of his lover; he condemns himself to moving cities every few weeks instead, in the hope of finding a semblance of peace.

He travels through Europe where past and present overlap, years merge and faces emerge - and where reminders of the life he and Thomas shared are on every corner. Leo's memories become clearer with every road he takes, much as he wishes he could simply forget. Wanting to preserve the passion of their relationship, Leo had forced Thomas to live separately: in separate rooms, separate towns, with separate lives. But now, face to face with true solitude, Leo must finally reckon with the impossible striving of memory to recreate life and, ultimately, cross an ocean to find the strength to go on.

André Aciman's Call Me by Your Name meets Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: Separate Rooms is a singular and unforgettable meditation on almost-ideal love, told in three musical movements, by a fiery and unforgettable literary talent.

Soon to be a major film directed by Luca Guadagnino (and rumoured to feature a very special Heated Rivalry star. )

Contributor: Simon Pleasance (Translated by)

Translator: Simon Pleasance

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