Giovanni's room

Baldwin, James

| 1990

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One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' Baldwin's ground-breaking second 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 ......

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Zack Simone

2016-11-11

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Kom på att jag läst den här godingen

Ing-Marie Haglund

2012-09-30

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Thomas Rosswall

2010-01-28

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En bok om den sexuella identitet, som en ung amerikan söker i Paris och södra Frankrike. Skall han ta barkillen eller den amerikanska flikvännen? Modig bok som puibvlicerades mer än för 50 år sedan, men som fortfarande har mycket att ge.