Staff Pick
AUCK IN STOCK
WGTN OUT OF STOCK
Pages:
192
Published:
Jun 2024
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint
Vintage
ISBN:
9780593688960
A deluxe edition of James Baldwin's groundbreaking novel, with a new introduction by Kevin Young and special cover art designed by Baldwin's friend and contemporary Beauford Delaney
Giovanni's Room is set in the Paris of the 1950s, where a young American expatriate finds himself caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality. David has just proposed marriage to his American girlfriend, but while she is away on a trip he becomes involved in a doomed affair with a bartender named Giovanni. With sharp, probing insight, James Baldwin's classic narrative delves into the mystery of love and tells a deeply moving story that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart.
Giovanni's Room is set in the Paris of the 1950s, where a young American expatriate finds himself caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality. David has just proposed marriage to his American girlfriend, but while she is away on a trip he becomes involved in a doomed affair with a bartender named Giovanni. With sharp, probing insight, James Baldwin's classic narrative delves into the mystery of love and tells a deeply moving story that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart.
$42.00
I’d been meaning to read this for years, and I’m so glad I didn’t let another one slip by without experiencing this masterpiece. Set in the 1950s, Baldwin perfectly captures the suffocating reality of being queer during this time. Sparks fly when a young American meets an Italian barman in Paris, but love can’t breathe when confined to a single room, and tragedy inevitably ensues. Utterly heartbreaking and beautifully written.
Daniel, Unity Books auckland
