Enigma Variations

<p>AndrГ© Aciman, hailed as a writer of "fiction at its most supremely interesting" (<i>The New York Review of Books</i>), has written a novel that charts the life of a man named Paul, whose loves remain as consuming and as covetous throughout his adulthood as they were in his adolescence. Whether the setting is southern<br>Italy, where as a boy he has a crush on his parents' cabinetmaker, or a snowbound campus in New<br>England, where his enduring passion for a girl he'll meet again and again over the years is punctuated<br>by anonymous encounters with men; whether he's on a tennis court in Central Park, or on a New York sidewalk in early spring, his attachments are ungraspable, transient, and forever underwritten by raw desire&#8212;not for just one person's body but, inevitably, for someone else's as well.<br>In <i>Enigma Variations</i>, Aciman maps the most inscrutable corners of passion, proving to be an unsparing<br>reader of the human psyche and a master stylist. With...