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Andre Aciman and
Sanjiv Jhaveri (narrator)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Publication date
February 10, 2014
Binding
CD/Spoken Word
Edition
Unabridged
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781480517387
ISBN-10
1480517380
Dimensions
0.50 by 6 by 5.25 in.
Weight
0.45 lbs.
Original list price
$19.99
Other format details
audio
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: âIf you like brave, acute, elated, naked, brutal, tender, humane, and beautiful prose, then youâve come to the right place.â â Nicole Krauss André Aciman has been hailed as âthe most exciting new fiction writer of the twenty-first centuryâ (New York magazine), a âbrilliant chronicler of the disconnect . . . between who we are and who we wish we might have beenâ (Wall Street Journal), and a writer of âfiction at its most supremely interestingâ (Colm TóibÃn). Now, with his third and most ambitious novel, Aciman delivers an elegant and powerful tale of the wages of assimilation â a moving story of an immigrantâs remembered youth and the nearly forgotten costs and sacrifices of becoming an American. Itâs 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. Nicknamed Kalashnikov â Kalaj for short â for his machine-gun vitriol, the cab driver roars into the studentâs life with his denunciations of the American obsession with âall things jumbo and ersatzâ â Twinkies, monster television sets, all-you-can-eat buffets â and his outrageous declarations on love and the art of seduction. The student finds it hard to resist his new friendâs magnetism, and before long he begins to neglect his studies and live a double life: one in the rarefied world of Harvard, the other as an exile with Kalaj on the streets of Cambridge. Together they carouse the bars and cafés around Harvard Square, trade intimate accounts of their love affairs, argue about the American dream, and skinny-dip in Walden Pond. But as final exams loom and Kalaj has his license revoked and is threatened with deportation, the student faces the decision of his life: whether to cling to his dream of New World assimilation or risk it all to defend his Old World friend. Harvard Square is a sexually charged and deeply American novel of identity and aspiration at odds. It is also an unforgettable, moving portrait of an unlikely friendship from one of the finest stylists of our time.
Editions
CD/Spoken Word
With Andre Aciman |
Mp3 una edition from Brilliance Audio (September 23, 2014)
9781491543801 | details & prices | 5.25 × 6.75 × 0.50 in. | List price $14.99
With Andre Aciman |
Mp3 una edition from Brilliance Audio (February 10, 2014)
9781480519404 | details & prices | 5.25 × 7.25 × 0.50 in. | 0.20 lbs | List price $14.99
The price comparison is for this edition
With Andre Aciman |
Unabridged edition from Brilliance Audio (February 10, 2014)
9781480517387 | details & prices | 6.00 × 5.25 × 0.50 in. | 0.45 lbs | List price $19.99
About: âIf you like brave, acute, elated, naked, brutal, tender, humane, and beautiful prose, then youâve come to the right place.
About: âIf you like brave, acute, elated, naked, brutal, tender, humane, and beautiful prose, then youâve come to the right place.
With Andre Aciman |
Unabridged edition from Brilliance Audio (April 8, 2013)
9781480517332 | details & prices | 6.50 × 5.50 × 1.25 in. | 0.48 lbs | List price $29.99
With Andre Aciman |
Mp3 una edition from Brilliance Audio (April 8, 2013)
9781480517349 | details & prices | 5.50 × 7.25 × 0.50 in. | 0.20 lbs | List price $24.99
About: âIf you like brave, acute, elated, naked, brutal, tender, humane, and beautiful prose, then youâve come to the right place.
About: âIf you like brave, acute, elated, naked, brutal, tender, humane, and beautiful prose, then youâve come to the right place.
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