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Faber has announced The Gentleman From Peru, a “dazzling, sunbaked Italian summer story” from André Aciman, author of Call Me By Your Name (Atlantic) and other novels.
Associate publisher Louisa Joyner bought UK and Commonwealth rights excluding Canada from Clare Paterson Conrad at Janklow & Nesbit. Publication is scheduled for 4th April 2024. Described as “deeply atmospheric and sensual”, the publisher says The Gentleman From Peru "weaves achingly poignant insight into a story of regret, fate and epic love".
Its synopsis reads: “A group of college friends find themselves marooned at a luxurious hotel on the Amalfi Coast in Italy. While their boat is being repaired, they can’t help but observe the daily routine of a fellow hotel guest – a mysterious, white-bearded stranger who sits on the veranda each night and smokes one cigarette, sometimes two.
“When the group decides to invite the elegant traveller to lunch with them, they cannot begin to imagine the miraculous abilities, strange wisdom, and a life-changing story he is about to impart to one of the friends in particular."
Joyner said: “The sheer joy of jumping back into the world of André’s fiction is as exquisite for me as I know it is for the readers who long so sincerely for his next book. He is a world class novelist and I feel so lucky to be helping share the wonder, tenderness, piercing observation and all round brilliance we have come to rely upon, and which André never fails to deliver.”
Aciman is the editor of The Proust Project and teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Other works include Enigma Variations, Out of Egypt: A Memoir and Find Me (Faber).