Pier Vittorio Tondelli was born in Correggio in 1955 and died in 1991. He made his debut in 1980 with Altri libertini, which was followed in 1982 by Pao Pao. In 1985 he published the novel Rimini, followed by Biglietti agli amici in 1986 and Separate Rooms in 1989.

A LitHub and LGBTQ Reads Most Anticipated Book of 2025

"Separate Rooms is a classic in Italy: a story of love and youth and pain that will have you clutching at your heart. I want everyone to read it; I want to press it into people's hands. Surely one of the best novels I've ever read." --Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less and Less Is Lost

"I was in the hands, not of an occasional writer, but of one who had fathomed both himself and his true, complex, frequently unsortable emotions. His capacity to probe and articulate these contradictory strains arrested me and presaged a writer never pleased with easy answers . . . For it's a novel both exceptionally moving yet exceptionally lucid as it weaves its way through the twisted strands of what Leo is desperately trying to unearth and parse in himself." --from the foreword by André Aciman

"An Italian novel of imperfect love and urgent grief." --New York Times

Publisher: Zando

Pub date: 2025-04-22

Length: 256 pages