Giovanni’s Room

Giovanni’s Room was named as one of the BBC’s ‘100 Novels That Shaped Our World’ and established Baldwin as one of the great American writers of his time.

David, a young American in 1950s Paris, is waiting for his fiancée to return from vacation in Spain.

But when he meets Giovanni, a handsome Italian barman, the two men are drawn into an intense affair. After three months David’s fiancée returns and, denying his sexuality, he rejects Giovanni for a ‘safe’ future as a married man — a decision that will bring tragedy, longing and regret.