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Making the acquaintance of a woman at a holiday party, a man in his late 20s meets her at the cinema for seven subsequent nights leading up to New Year's Eve, a week fraught by increasing tension, ambivalence and hope. By the author of Call Me By Your Name.
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<p><b>A LUSHLY ROMANTIC NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF <i>CALL ME BY YOUR NAME<br></i></b><br>A young man goes to a Christmas party in upper Manhattan where a woman introduces herself with three simple words: "I am Clara." Over the following seven days, they meet every evening at the cinema. Overwhelmed yet cautious, he treads softly. The tension between them builds gradually—marked by ambivalence, hope, and distrust—culminating in a final scene on New Year's Eve charged with magic and the passion. André Aciman yet again explores human emotion with uncompromising accuracy in this piercing new novel. <i>Eight White Nights</i> is a brilliant performance from a master prose stylist.</p>
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