Three hypnotic novellas about obsessional love missed connections and enduring regret by the
bestselling author of Call Me by Your Name . The short fictions in Room on the Sea deal with
the heart-wrenching vicissitudes of amorous ambivalence in André Aciman's inimitably nostalgic
lyric style. "The Gentleman from Peru" tells the story of the life-changing encounter of a
group of friends with an enigmatic solitary guest in a hotel on the Amalfi Coast. "Room on the
Sea" is a dialogue between a man and a woman who meet on jury duty and embark on a complex
relationship. "Mariana" is a modern retelling of a famous seventeenth-century novel about a
love affair between a nun and a swashbuckling unreliable aristocrat. No one writes about the
ups and downs the yeses and nos of contemporary love like Aciman. As The Times (London)
writes: "You don't so much read André Aciman's novels as tumble breathlessly into them."
