Roman Year: A Memoir
Aciman evokes the passing of time in rich, meandering prose, rebuilding 1960s Rome in sentences suffused with light and sound and memories ... Both an affecting coming-of-age story and a timely, distinctive description of the haunted lives of refugees.
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This is not, in style or spirit, a sad book. It’s filled with canny adaptiveness and invention ... Aciman is a sensitive and passionate writer, and this volume’s packed with human incident ... A brave, sensuous, tender chronicle.
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Bittersweet, buoyant and teeming with cinematic detail, André Aciman’s new memoir tells of political upheaval and personal transformation in the vibrant, volatile Mediterranean of the 1960s. Roman Year is a vivid, earthy book about losing a home in North Africa and finding a new, if temporary, one in southern Europe.
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