Category: Adults, General Fiction, LGBT
Language: EnglishKeywords: Italian Literature Italy Queer
Written by Pier Vittorio Tondelli
Read by Andrew Wincott
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged
âA 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 peopleâs hands. Surely one of the best novels Iâve ever read.ââAndrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less and Less Is Lost
Soon to be a major film adaptation by Luca Guadagnino, Separate Rooms 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.
Thomas, 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.
He 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 [GU1] the end, Leoâs memories become clearer with every road he takesâmuch 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.
André Acimanâs Call Me by Your Name meets Ocean Vuongâs On Earth Weâre Briefly Gorgeous in Pier Vittorio Tondelliâs Separate Rooms: 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.
Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
Release date: 04-24-25
âA 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 peopleâs hands. Surely one of the best novels Iâve ever read.ââAndrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less and Less Is Lost
Soon to be a major film adaptation by Luca Guadagnino, Separate Rooms 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.
Thomas, 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.
He 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 [GU1] the end, Leoâs memories become clearer with every road he takesâmuch 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.
André Acimanâs Call Me by Your Name meets Ocean Vuongâs On Earth Weâre Briefly Gorgeous in Pier Vittorio Tondelliâs Separate Rooms: 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.
Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
Release date: 04-24-25