{"product_id":"separate-rooms-hardcover-by-pier-vittorio-tondelli","title":"Separate Rooms Hardcover by Pier Vittorio Tondelli","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                            \n                                \n                                    \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                                    \u003cul\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eZando\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2025-04-22)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e256\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9781638932086\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e374.22\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e8.56 x 5.81 x 0.91\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                    \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                                    \u003cbr\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A story of love and youth and pain that will have you clutching at your heart. I want everyone to read it; I want to press it into people’s hands. Surely one of the best novels I’ve ever read.” —Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eLess\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLess Is Lost\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA LitHub and LGBTQ Reads Most Anticipated Book of 2025 • An \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e Pride Month Read \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSoon to be a major film adaptation by Luca Guadagnino, \u003ci\u003eSeparate Rooms\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterpiece of Italian literature, and a heartbreaking portrait of love, grief, and the daily realities of being a gay man in 1980s Europe.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThomas, 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. So, he condemns himself to wandering the earth instead, moving cities every few weeks in the hope of finding the dividing line between the living and the dead.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe travels through Europe where past and present overlap, years merge and faces emerge, and reminders of the life he and Thomas shared are on every corner. From their meeting and nights spent in Paris to the drug-induced flight through the forests of northern France that spelled the end, Leo’s memories become clearer with every road he takes—much as he wishes he could simply forget. While alive, and 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAndré Aciman’s \u003ci\u003eCall Me by Your Name\u003c\/i\u003e meets Ocean Vuong’s\u003ci\u003e On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous\u003c\/i\u003e in Pier Vittorio Tondelli’s \u003ci\u003eSeparate Rooms\u003c\/i\u003e: a singular and unforgettable meditation on almost-ideal love, told in three musical movements, by a treasured literary talent never before published in the US.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“I was in the hands, not of an occasional writer, but of one who had fathomed both himself and his true, complex, frequently unsortable emotions. His capacity to probe and articulate these contradictory strains arrested me and presaged a writer never pleased with easy answers . . . For it’s a novel both exceptionally moving yet exceptionally lucid as it weaves its way through the twisted strands of what Leo is desperately trying to unearth and parse in himself.” —from the foreword by André Aciman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                    \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003ePier Vittorio Tondelli was born in Correggio in 1955 and died in 1991. He made his debut in 1980 with \u003ci\u003eAltri libertini\u003c\/i\u003e, which was followed in 1982 by \u003ci\u003ePao Pao\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1985 he published the novel \u003ci\u003eRimini\u003c\/i\u003e, followed by \u003ci\u003eBiglietti agli amici\u003c\/i\u003e in 1986 and \u003ci\u003eSeparate Rooms\u003c\/i\u003e in 1989.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                \n                            \n                            \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":45350620233889,"sku":"BBSNIJ9781638932086","price":35.14,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9781638932086.jpg?v=1762932463","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/separate-rooms-hardcover-by-pier-vittorio-tondelli","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}