ROMAN YEAR A Memoir

Narrator Edoardo Ballerini captures the listener's heart with this new audiobook memoir following a family that was forced to move to Rome after being expelled from their home in Egypt during political unrest. In his adolescence, André Aciman, his brother, and his deaf mother find themselves in a city where they don't speak the language. As the year progresses, André must find himself and embrace Rome as the city of his exodus. Ballerini's performance captures the confusion and instability of a young man who is struggling to come to terms with the loss of the life he once knew and his new life in a new city. Ballerini embraces the poetry of Aciman's words with his thoughtful delivery. V.B. © AudioFile 2025, Portland, Maine [Published: JANUARY 2025]