During the restless summer weeks, unrelenting but buried currents of obsession, fascination, and desire intensify their passion as they test the charged ground between them and verge toward the one thing both already fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy.

André Aciman’s critically acclaimed debut novel is a frank, unsentimental, heartrending elegy to human passion. Andre Aciman is the author of “Out of Egypt” and “False Papers, and the editor of “The Proust Project. He teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He lives with his family in Manhattan.