From the author of Call Me By Your Name (now a major motion picture) comes a passionate portrait of love's contradictory power. Enigma Variations charts the life of a man named Paul, whose loves remain as consuming and as covetous throughout his adulthood as they were in his adolescence. Whether against the backdrop of southern Italy, where he develops a crush on his parents' cabinetmaker, or a snowbound campus in New England, his attachments are ungraspable, transient, and forever underwritten by raw desire-not for just one person's body but, inevitably, for someone else's as well.