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| Verlag | Penguin Books UK |
| Auflage | 2024 |
| Seiten | 176 |
| Format | 13,6 x 20,5 x 1,7 cm |
| Gewicht | 278 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| Reihe | Penguin Clothbound Classics |
| EAN | 9780241718599 |
| Bestell-Nr | 24171859EA |
A beautiful new Clothbound edition of Baldwin's ground-breaking novel, which established him as one of the great American writers of his time
'Audacious... remarkable... elegant and courageous' Caryl Phillips
'Exquisite, a feat of fire-breathing, imaginative daring' Guardian
David, a young American in 1950s Paris, is waiting for his fiancée to return from vacation in Spain. But when he meets Giovanni, a handsome Italian barman, the two men are drawn into an intense affair. After three months David's fiancée returns and, denying his sexuality, he rejects Giovanni for a 'safe' future as a married man - a decision that will bring tragedy, longing and regret.
'Gorgeous, fearless, tempered by dark knowledge and pain ... the greatest American prose stylist of his generation' Colm Tóibín
'A layered exploration of queer desire ... It is electric' Hilton Als
Rezension:
Today, when a great many arguments and complaints from the queer quarters of the political sphere have to do with what has been done to queerness by the patriarchy and by whiteness, Baldwin asks, in Giovanni's Room, what love looks like, ultimately, when we leave all those bags at the door - and if we can. Do we know how to live in a purely queer world not defined by resistance or self-hatred?' Hilton Als New York Times Style Magazine
