Издания и произведения

«Гарвардская площадь» — это изящная история молодого студента-иммигранта — еврея из Египта, — который встречает дерзкого и притягательного арабского таксиста и испытывает новую дружбу на прочность, переосмысливая свою жизнь в Америке. Андре Асиман, заслуженно признанный одним из лучших романистов нашего времени, создал удивительный роман о самосознании и цене ассимиляции, незабываемый и трогательный портрет невероятной дружбы.

André Aciman has been hailed as "the most exciting new fiction writer of the twenty-first century" (New York magazine), a "brilliant chronicler of the disconnect…between who we are and who we wish we might have been" (Wall Street Journal), and a writer of "fiction at its most supremely interesting" (Colm Tóibín). Now, with his third and most ambitious novel, Aciman delivers an elegant and powerful tale of the wages of assimilation―a moving story of an immigrant’s remembered youth and the nearly forgotten costs and sacrifices of becoming an American. It’s the fall of 1977, and amid the lovely, leafy streets of Cambridge a young Harvard…

It’s the fall of 1977, and amid the lovely, leafy streets of Cambridge a young Harvard graduate student, a Jew from Egypt, longs more than anything to become an assimilated American and a professor of literature. He spends his days in a pleasant blur of seventeenth-century fiction, but when he meets a brash, charismatic Arab cab driver in a Harvard Square café, everything changes.