Five top novellas of unconsummated loves

André Aciman is the author of the novels Call Me by Your Name and Eight White Nights, the memoir Out of Egypt, and two books of essays.

He named his five favorite novellas of unconsummated loves for The Daily Beast. One title on the list:
White Nights
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

White Nights is also an elegy to a love that never was. A young man called “the dreamer” walks along the canals of St.