Giovanni's Room

Giovanni's Room

Selected as one of The Atlantic Monthly's "Great American Novels of the Last 100 Years"
BBC's "100 English-language novels that shaped the world"
With Colm Tóibín’s wonderful introduction——————————————————————————
David, a young American, is searching for his identity in Paris, while his fiancée, Hera, wanders Spain alone. David meets an Italian bartender named Giovanni at Guillaume's bar. Giovanni awakens a desire deep within David, and David moves into Giovanni's cramped, untidy room, far from the city.
From the beginning of the novel, we know that David has abandoned Giovanni, that Hera has returned to the United States, and that Giovanni has been sentenced to death for killing the bar owner. Baldwin moves freely through time, as David oscillates between men and women.
With a sharp and profound imagination, James Baldwin plumbs the depths of love, creating a moving story of death and passion that reveals the unspeakable complexity of the human heart.
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“I hardly know how to describe that room. In a way, it became every room I’ve ever lived in, and every room I live in thereafter reminds me of Giovanni’s room. I hadn’t actually lived there very long—we met before the spring, I left him in the summer—but it felt like I had lived there my whole life.”

2024-09-01

上海译文出版社

Archipelago Books

175

9787532796090