Giovanni's Room Introduction by Colm Tóibín
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Sprache:Englisch
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Verlag:Random House N.Y.
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
01.03.2016
Verlag
Random House N.Y.Seitenzahl
200
Maße (L/B/H)
21,1/12,6/2,2 cm
Gewicht
320 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-101-90774-0
Set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris, this groundbreaking novel about love and the fear of love is "a book that belongs in the top rank of fiction" (The Atlantic). • With an Introduction by Colm Tóibín, New York Times bestselling author of The Master.
David is a young American expatriate who has just proposed marriage to his girlfriend, Hella. While she is away on a trip, David meets a bartender named Giovanni to whom he is drawn in spite of himself. Soon the two are spending the night in Giovanni’s curtainless room, which he keeps dark to protect their privacy. But Hella’s return to Paris brings the affair to a crisis, one that rapidly spirals into tragedy.
Caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality, David struggles for self-knowledge during one long, dark night—“the night which is leading me to the most terrible morning of my life.” With sharp, probing insight, Giovanni's Room tells an impassioned, deeply moving story that lays bare the unspoken complexities of the human heart.
David is a young American expatriate who has just proposed marriage to his girlfriend, Hella. While she is away on a trip, David meets a bartender named Giovanni to whom he is drawn in spite of himself. Soon the two are spending the night in Giovanni’s curtainless room, which he keeps dark to protect their privacy. But Hella’s return to Paris brings the affair to a crisis, one that rapidly spirals into tragedy.
Caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality, David struggles for self-knowledge during one long, dark night—“the night which is leading me to the most terrible morning of my life.” With sharp, probing insight, Giovanni's Room tells an impassioned, deeply moving story that lays bare the unspoken complexities of the human heart.
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Reading this is mandatory
Bewertung am 28.10.2025
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A tender book about the choices we take in love, for life, and about ourselves. Giovanni's Room is mandatory reading as a time capsule for LGBT men coming up today who are contemplating identity and the internal struggle to accept reality.
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Eine herzzerreißende Geschichte über Queerness. James Baldwin schreibt auf eine besondere, ja sogar poetische Art und Weise. Ich kann das Buch auf jeden Fall empfehlen. Es ist ein Klassiker
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