Separate rooms
Tondelli, Pier Vittorio, 1955-19912025
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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.
Main title:
Separate rooms / Pier Vittorio Tondelli ; translated by Simon Pleasance.
Author:
Tondelli, Pier Vittorio, 1955-1991, authorPleasance, Simon, translator
Edition:
New edition / introduction by AndreĢ Aciman.
Imprint:
London : Sceptre, 2025.
Collation:
240 pages ; 23 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Italian.
ISBN:
9781399734493 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
853.914
Language:
EnglishItalian
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BRN:
5814255
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