**Set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris, this
groundbreaking novel about love and the fear of love is "a book that
belongs in the top rank of fiction" (The Atlantic). - With an
Introduction by Colm Tóibín, New York Times bestselling author of *The
Master.
David is a young American expatriate who has just proposed marriage to
his girlfriend, Hella. While she is away on a trip, David meets a
bartender named Giovanni to whom he is drawn in spite of himself. Soon
the two are spending the night in Giovanni's curtainless room, which he
keeps dark to protect their privacy. But Hella's return to Paris brings
the affair to a crisis, one that rapidly spirals into tragedy.
Caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality, David
struggles for self-knowledge during one long, dark night--"the night
which is leading me to the most terrible morning of my life." With
sharp, probing insight, Giovanni's Room tells an impassioned, deeply
moving story that lays bare the unspoken complexities of the human
heart.