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Product details
- ISBN 9781399734516
- Weight: 180g
- Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 21 May 2026
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Your next Pride Month read: the rediscovered gay cult classic, published in English for the first time in thirty years
'A classic of Italian gay fiction . . . the whole thing is bathed in elegiac pathos'
THE SUNDAY TIMES
'A story of love and youth and pain that will have you clutching at your heart . . . Surely one of the best novels I've ever read'
ANDREW SEAN GREER, author of Less and Villa Coco
'Beautiful and poignant'
THE TIMES
With an introduction by André Aciman, bestselling author of Call Me by Your Name
Thomas, a young German musician, is dying. His older boyfriend, a renowned Italian writer named Leo, finds it impossible to watch the slow and inevitable demise of his lover; he condemns himself to moving cities every few weeks instead, in the hope of finding a semblance of peace.
Wanting to preserve the passion of their relationship, Leo had forced Thomas to live separately: in separate rooms, separate towns, with separate lives. But now, face to face with true solitude, Leo must finally reckon with regret and nostalgia and the impossible striving of memory to recreate life.
'An Italian novel of imperfect love and urgent grief'
NEW YORK TIMES
'A stunning novel . . . prepare to be deeply moved'
JACK PARLETT, author of Fire Island
'A discreet, lyrical meditation on the nature of male love'
EDMUND WHITE
Soon to be a major film directed by Luca Guadagnino (and rumoured to feature a very special Heated Rivalry star... )
'A classic of Italian gay fiction . . . the whole thing is bathed in elegiac pathos'
THE SUNDAY TIMES
'A story of love and youth and pain that will have you clutching at your heart . . . Surely one of the best novels I've ever read'
ANDREW SEAN GREER, author of Less and Villa Coco
'Beautiful and poignant'
THE TIMES
With an introduction by André Aciman, bestselling author of Call Me by Your Name
Thomas, a young German musician, is dying. His older boyfriend, a renowned Italian writer named Leo, finds it impossible to watch the slow and inevitable demise of his lover; he condemns himself to moving cities every few weeks instead, in the hope of finding a semblance of peace.
Wanting to preserve the passion of their relationship, Leo had forced Thomas to live separately: in separate rooms, separate towns, with separate lives. But now, face to face with true solitude, Leo must finally reckon with regret and nostalgia and the impossible striving of memory to recreate life.
'An Italian novel of imperfect love and urgent grief'
NEW YORK TIMES
'A stunning novel . . . prepare to be deeply moved'
JACK PARLETT, author of Fire Island
'A discreet, lyrical meditation on the nature of male love'
EDMUND WHITE
Soon to be a major film directed by Luca Guadagnino (and rumoured to feature a very special Heated Rivalry star... )
Pier Vittorio Tondelli was born in Correggio in 1955 and died in 1991. He made his debut in 1980 with Altri libertini, which was followed in 1982 by Pao Pao. In 1985 he published the novel Rimini, followed by Biglietti agli amici in 1986 and Separate Rooms in 1989.
