Author André Aciman’s Jewish family fled to Italy after being deported from Egypt. Against his better judgement, Aciman was seduced by the sights and sounds of Rome. To this day, he occasionally returns to one building that represents his dreams of home.
Writer and professor Andre Aciman reads from his story, “Roman Hours,” originally published in the Conde Nast Traveler and reprinted in The Best American Travel Writing of 2002. In it, he transports the listener to the Rome he moved to as a refugee at age 14, and the home he longed to live in.