Soon the two are spending the night in Giovanni’s curtainless room, which he keeps dark to protect their privacy. While she is away on a trip, David meets a bartender named Giovanni to whom he is drawn in spite of himself. In the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality.ĭavid is a young American expatriate who has just proposed marriage to his girlfriend, Hella.
From one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the past century comes a groundbreaking novel set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris, about love and the fear of love-"a book that belongs in the top rank of fiction" ( The Atlantic).
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