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Stowaways

By: André Aciman
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
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This contemporary twist on Brief Encounter is a tender meditation on what might have been.

'Maybe we love people because they won't let us know them.'


A summer's evening in Manhattan. Nothing - not cold drinks, not showers not a stroll through the chilly aisles of an all-night drugstore - can undo the heat's hold on the city. Julian is half watching the evening news, his husband filling the dishwasher. That's when it arrives. An email with the subject line: 'From Paul Axel'. An email about a dead man from Carol - a woman Julian has never met. Paul has left a message he'd like her to relay.

Emails are exchanged. Morning coffee at the Bryant Park Grill is agreed. Carol, fulfilling Paul's final request, wonders how she will tell Julian of a life - and a love - he has no idea existed. A life, encased in a flash drive, containing multitudes.

©2026 André Aciman (P)2026 Faber & Faber
Genre Fiction Literary Fiction
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