Enigma Variations

From a youthful infatuation with a cabinet maker in a small Italian fishing village, to a passionate yet sporadic affair with a woman in New York, to an obsession with a man he meets at a tennis court

‘Magnificent.’ New York Times‘Unforgettable.’ Times Literary Supplement‘Exquisite.’ New YorkerFrom the Sunday Times bestselling author of Call Me by Your Name and Find Me, now available to preorder in paperback.From a youthful infatuation with a cabinet maker in a small Italian fishing village, to a passionate yet sporadic affair with a woman in New York, to an obsession with a man he meets at a tennis court, Enigma Variations charts one man’s path through the great loves of his life. Paul’s intense desires, losses and longings draw him closer, not to a defined orientation, but to an understanding that ‘heartache, like love, like low-grade fevers, like the longing to reach out and touch a hand across the table, is easy enough to live down’.André Aciman casts a shimmering light over each facet of desire, to probe how we ache, want and waver, and ultimately how we sometimes falter and let go of the very ones we want the most. We may not know what we want. We may remain enigmas to ourselv

A passionate portrait of love’s contradictory power, in five illuminating stories André Aciman, who has been called “the most exciting new fiction writer of the twenty-first century” (New York magazin

A passionate portrait of love’s contradictory power, in five illuminating stories André Aciman, who has been called “the most exciting new fiction writer of the twenty-first century” (New York magazin

The famous Nimrod movement from the Enigma Variations. Arranged by the composer for piano solo.

The 1899 debut of the Enigma Variations won Elgar renown throughout the British Isles and abroad, and the work remains one of his most widely performed works. Reprinted here from an authoritative Engl

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Elgar's Variations for Orchestra, commonly known as the 'Enigma' Variations, marked an epoch both in his career, and in the renaissance of English music at the turn of the century. The first extended

Noted writers on art, culture, and the tropical Americas, Richard and Sally Price have crafted a mystery at the intersections of art and anthropology. Drawing readers into their quest for a solution,

Authoritative British editions of the 14 Variations, rich with melody and vibrant rhythms, each revealing a facet of a central theme never fully expressed and each depicting an unnamed friend of the

Two mayflies on a date realize that they have a mere twenty-four hours to live and decide to seize life completely - if only they knew how. So begins Time Flies and Other Short Plays, a collection of

"Nimrod" (Variation No. 9 from Enigma Variations) is one of Elgar's most popular creations. It is often performed as a stand-alone piece and has been transcribed for all kinds of musical ensembles. Th

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Treating her topic as if it were a piece of classical music, Orucu (comparative law; U. of Glasgow, UK and Erasmus U., the Netherlands) presents themes of comparative law through the development of op

Nobody doubts that intuition in chess exists. It is part of the arsenal of every chess player, next to well-known weapons such as tactical skills, the ability to calculate variations and endgame techn

Poetry. "Will we escape analogy," Claude Royet-Journoud asked. Does ANALOGIES OF ESCAPE answer this question? Or does it rather use that famous line as the enigma for a set of variations--a theme alwa

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