Sparsholt Sakıncalı Yakınlık

One of the outstanding examples of LGBTI literature…

“This story tells about the aftershocks that last for generations after a youth adventure. Call Me by Your Name and Evelyn Waugh come together in a magnificent novel.” -Esquire

This masterfully written novel by Man Booker Prize-winning author Alan Hollinghurst delves deep into the complex relationships in a strange family, while also taking the reader on a seventy-year journey.

In 1940, David Sparsholt comes to Oxford to study engineering, but has no other thought in mind than joining the Royal Air Force. A handsome, athletic and charismatic character, David is unaware of the powerful influence he has on other people; especially the effect it had on Evert Dax, the romantic and lonely son of a famous novelist who also aspired to become a writer. Situated outside war-torn London and ravaged by the Blitz War, Oxford has been strangely disposed of: it is a place of ephemeral beauty, a place of secret whispers under cover of darkness. A friendship blossoms between David and Evert that will mark their lives in the coming years.

Alan Hollinghurst's new novel, which took the literary community by storm, brings to life the intimate relationships of several friends who came together through art, literature and love over three generations. We also witness changes in the perception of pleasure and morality in this vivid series of events: the Sparsholt family's Cornwall holiday, unusual meetings at the Dax mansion, the London adventures of David's son, the painter Johnny, in the 1970s... It is full of rich descriptions about fathers and sons, family and its legitimacy. , this emotionally moving novel not only explores the social and sexual revolutions of the past century, but also drags us into the heart of the age we live in.