Eight White Nights

From the author of the novel on which the film Call me by your name is based.

«A brave, pure, brutal, human, and beautiful prose.»
Nicole Krauss

It's Christmas Eve, and Henry wanders through the rooms of an immense Upper West Side apartment in New York, blending in with the other guests at a party that seems to never end. Suddenly, a voice surprises him: «I'm Clara,» a young and beautiful woman announces, without further ado, and these two words, so simple and firm, are enough to intrigue Henry. Then, a shared cigarette on the terrace and a few more phrases turn them into accomplices of a unique love story.

We, from the pages of the book, accompany Henry in the days following the party, throughout the eight white nights that separate Christmas from New Year's Eve. There we are, privileged witnesses to the young man's doubts, his solitary walks in search of Clara, his bewilderment at suddenly seeing her, his fear of commitment, and his desire to surrender.

Everything that usually fits into a great love adventure is distilled here into an unforgettable week. André Aciman, author of the novel on which the film Call me by your name is based, here pays a splendid tribute to Dostoevsky's White Nights and to the best love literature of all time.

Critics have said:
«An ambitious novel that keeps us on the edge of our seats until the end [thanks to] a high-voltage sexual tension that becomes an absolute love story. Eight White Nights envelops the reader in a beautiful winter spell.»
Jennifer Egan, The New York Times

«The beauty of Aciman's writing and the purity of his passions should place this extraordinary novel in the canon of great romantic love stories. [#] It's unlike anything you've read before.»
The Washington Post

«Reading André Aciman is like falling in love.»
Xavi Ayén, La Vanguardia

«Alongside Aciman, we reflect on who we are and who we have become after all those lives we dared not explore.»
El Cultural

«Aciman writes about desire with brutal honesty, describing with equal clarity erotic and emotional encounters. Sex can be tender or not, the connection can be lasting or ephemeral, but it almost always has multiple layers and complexities.»
The Boston Globe

«Aciman writes with the ferocity of a writer who has finally found his way of seeing and has to bring it to light.»
The New York Times

«As often happens in his narrative, Aciman plunges readers into a painfully sensitive and sensual environment. [...] A mature look at desire and attachment.»
Kirkus Reviews