ANDRÉ ACIMAN at Charleston Literary Festival 2024

Award-winning author of Call Me by Your Name, André Aciman revisits Rome in a memoir that reads like a novel. On the cusp of adulthood, Aciman and his family were expelled from their hometown, Alexandria, Egypt, for being Jewish. In the book, Aciman describes his experience in the “Eternal City.” Woven into Aciman’s amusing style is a story of trauma and displacement. He is in conversation with world-class audiobook narrator, Edoardo Ballerini, who performs the voice of André Aciman in Roman Year.

Roman Year: A Memoir
Recorded November 1, 2024

0:00-3:34 Introduction
3:34-42:49 Conversation
42:49-1:01:56 Audience Q&A