A LUSHLY ROMANTIC NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF "CALL ME BY YOUR NAME"""A young man goes to a Christmas party in upper Manhattan where a woman introduces herself with three simple words: "I am Clara. " Over the following seven days, they meet every evening at the cinema. Overwhelmed yet cautious, he treads softly. The tension between them builds gradually--marked by ambivalence, hope, and distrust--culminating in a final scene on New Year's Eve in a final scene charged with magic and the passion. As Andre Aciman yet again explores human emotion with uncompromising accuracy in this piercing new novel. Eight White Nights is a brilliant performance from a master prose stylist.