Lehman College Alumni Relations and Leonard Lief Library
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A Reading and Discussion

Enigma Variations
by André Aciman

This book reads as if [Aciman] has taken his three previous novels, combined and distilled them down to their essence…  Aciman is all the way himself here. He writes with the ferocity of a writer who’s finally getting his vision down, and he has to say it, has to get it out. He’s made a magnificent, living thing.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               -- Paul Lisicky, The New York Times

André Aciman is Distinguished Professor in CUNY Graduate Center’s Comparative Literature doctoral program and Director of its Writers' Institute.

He is author of the novels Harvard Square, Eight White Nights, and Call Me by Your Name [recently made into a feature film], the memoir Out of Egypt, and False Papers: Essays on Exile and Memory. 

Aciman is recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, and a fellowship from New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.  His work has appeared in the New York Times, New Yorker, New York Review of Books, New Republic, Paris Review, as well as in several volumes of The Best American Essays.