Rumaan Alam
© David A. Land
Rumaan Alam is the author of four novels. He lives in New York City.
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© David A. Land
Rumaan Alam is the author of four novels. He lives in New York City.
I expected A Domestic Animal to be a document of gay life in a benighted past. It isn’t, exactly. The American Psychiatric Association notoriously considered homosexuality a pathology until 1973. Dick does them one better; maybe love is a private experience by definition, maybe—gay or straight—it’s a disease without a cure.
Francis King
Foreword by Rumaan Alam
“A compact, intricately patterned story of unrequited erotic obsession, focused on the relationship between a closeted English novelist and a beautiful Italian philosopher . . . Among the novel’s daring ideas is its suggestion that closetedness and English taciturnity are part of a common condition, each an art of concealment.” —Charlie Tyson, Harper’s Magazine
A witty, heartbreaking tale of unrequited love by “one of the finest and most remarkable of English novelists of our time.” (The Scotsman)