The Confessions of Max Tivoli

Born with the physical appearance of a very old man, Max grows older like any child, but his physical age appears to go backward. His physical curse is also his blessing, allowing him to try to win the love of the same woman three times as at each successive encounter she takes him for a stranger, so giving Max another chance at love.

A beautiful and daring feat of imagination, The Confessions of Max Tivoli reveals the world through the eyes of a "monster," a being who confounds the very certainties by which we live and in doing so embodies in extremis what it means to be human.