Separate Rooms
With an introduction by André Aciman, bestselling author of Call Me by Your Name
Author: Pier Vittorio Tondelli and Simon Pleasance
A new edition of a lost classic of twentieth-century Italian literature: Tondelli's last book is a powerful novel about the strength of love and the trauma of death.
28th July 2025
Hardcover
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A new edition of a lost classic of twentieth-century Italian literature: Tondelli's last book is a powerful novel about the strength of love and the trauma of death.
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'An Italian novel of imperfect love and urgent grief'
NEW YORK TIMES'A novel of dignified beauty'OBSERVER'A masterly piece of writing, rich with insight and detail, and a curiously moving optimism'GAY TIMES'A discreet, lyrical meditation on the nature of male love'EDMUND WHITEWith an introduction by Andre Aciman, bestselling author of Call Me by Your NameThomas, 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.He travels through Europe where past and present overlap, years merge and faces emerge - and where reminders of the life he and Thomas shared are on every corner. Leo's memories become clearer with every road he takes, much as he wishes he could simply forget. 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 the impossible striving of memory to recreate life and, ultimately, cross an ocean to find the strength to go on.Andre Aciman's Call Me by Your Name meets Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: Separate Rooms is a singular and unforgettable meditation on almost-ideal love, told in three musical movements, by a fiery and unforgettable literary talent.Critic Reviews
An Italian novel of imperfect love and urgent grief New York Times
A novel of dignified beauty Observer
A masterly piece of writing, rich with insight and detail, and a curiously moving optimism Gay Times
Tondelli's was a meticulous talent, precise and particular, his writing full of nicely observed detail and an almost microscopic view of everyday things and feelings Financial Times
A discreet, lyrical meditation on the nature of male love -- Edmund White
About the Author
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.
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