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Enigma Variations charts the life of Paul, a young man whose loves remain as consuming and covetous throughout adulthood as they were in adolescence . . .
In mapping the most inscrutable corners of desire, Aciman proves to be an unsparing reader of the human psyche and a master stylist of contemporary literature. With language at once lyrical, bare-knuckled, and unabashedly candid, he casts a sensuous, 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 those who may want only to offer what we crave from them.
"Aciman writes arousal so beautifully you miss it when it's gone. He writes with the ferocity of a writer who's finally getting his vision down, and he has to say it, has to get it out. He's made a magnificent, living thing." -- New York Times Book Review