A deluxe edition of James Baldwin's groundbreaking novel with a new introduction by Kevin
Young and special cover art designed by Baldwin's friend and contemporary Beauford Delaney
Giovanni's Room is set in the Paris of the 1950s where a young American expatriate finds
himself caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality. David has just proposed
marriage to his American girlfriend but while she is away on a trip he becomes involved in a
doomed affair with a bartender named Giovanni. With sharp probing insight James Baldwin's
classic narrative delves into the mystery of love and tells a deeply moving story that reveals
the unspoken complexities of the human heart.
