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André Aciman has been hailed as "the most fascinating new fiction writer of the 21st century" (New York magazine), a "brilliant chronicler of the disconnect...between who we live and who we wish we would have been" (Wall Road Journal), and a writer of "fiction at its most supremely interesting" (Colm Tóibín). Now, with his third & most ambitious novel, Aciman delivers an elegant and powerful tale of the income of assimilation - a moving tale of your immigrant's remembered junior and the nearly forgotten costs and sacrifices of becoming an American. It's the land of 1977, and amid the lovely, leafy streets of Cambridge a young Harvard graduate university student, a Jew from Egypt, longs more than anything to be an assimilated North american and a teacher of literature. He spends his times in a pleasurable blur of 17th-century fiction, however when he satisfies a brash, charismatic Arab cab driver in a Harvard Square café, everything changes. Nicknamed Kalashnikov - Kalaj for short - for his machine-gun vitriol, the cab driver roars into the student's life with his denunciations of the American obsession with "all things jumbo and ersatz" - Twinkies, monster tv units, all-you-can-eat buffets - and his outrageous declarations on love and the artwork of seduction. The university student sees it hard to avoid his new friend's magnetism, and before long he starts to neglect his studies and live a double life: one in the rarefied world of Harvard, the other as an exile with Kalaj on the streets of Cambridge. Alongside one another they carouse the pubs and cafés around Harvard Square, trade intimate accounts of their love affairs, dispute about the North american desire, and skinny-dip in Walden Lake. But as final exams loom and Kalaj has his certificate revoked and is also threatened with deportation, the university student faces your choice of his life: whether to cling to his dream of New-World assimilation or risk it all to defend his Old-World good friend. Harvard Square is a sexually charged and deeply American novel of personality and aspiration at probabilities. It is also an unforgettable, moving portrait of your unlikely friendship in one of the best possible stylists of our own time.
