Harvard Square is a new novel from the bestselling author of Call Me by Your Name. This atmospheric memoir tells the story of two lonely souls who meet: a Harvard student from Egypt and a charismatic Arab taxi driver. A chance encounter changes both their lives. With each other's help, they must understand themselves, understand nostalgia, and grow up without losing their true selves.
Author: André Aciman
André Aciman is primarily an essayist and short-story writer: the author of several novels and essays on the work of Marcel Proust.
He was born in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1951, into a Jewish family with Turkish roots on one side and Italian roots on the other. His parents owned a knitwear factory, and his mother was deaf-mute. The Aciman household mainly spoke French, but André, thanks to frequent guests in the home, also spoke a little Greek and Arabic, and knew Sephardic, one of the Jewish languages.…
