Letters Of Transit: Reflections on Exile, Identity, Language, and Loss

Marc Notes: Published in collaboration with The New York Public Library.; Essays originally delivered in The New York Public Library's lecture series 'Letters of transit'--P. [9].; Includes bibliographical references. Publisher Marketing: All of the authors have written works on exile, home, and memory, using the written word as a tool for revisiting their old homes or fashioning new ones. This work includes five newly commissioned essays offering moving distallations of their most important thinking on these themes. Review Citations:

Publishers Weekly 04/05/1999 pg. 232 (EAN 9781565845046, Hardcover)

Kirkus Reviews 04/15/1999 pg. 583 (EAN 9781565845046, Hardcover)

Booklist 05/15/1999 pg. 1661 (EAN 9781565845046, Hardcover)

New York Times 07/18/1999 pg. 18 (EAN 9781565845046, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Aciman, Andre Andre Aciman is the author of the novels Call Me by Your Name and Eight White Nights, the memoir Out of Egypt, and two books of essays. He is also the editor of The Proust Project. He teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he directs the Writers Institute. Aciman lives with his wife and family in New York City.