Harvard Square

Arriving in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as a young immigrant and graduate student, an aspiring scholar struggles to find his place in an unfamiliar world of academic expectations and cultural adjustment. His carefully planned future takes an unexpected turn when he befriends Kalaj, a charismatic and unpredictable Tunisian taxi driver whose larger-than-life personality challenges everything he thinks he knows about ambition, identity, and belonging.

As their unlikely friendship deepens, the two men navigate questions of language, exile, love, and the search for purpose in a foreign land. Set against the backdrop of Harvard Square in the 1970s, André Aciman's novel is a poignant and often humorous exploration of friendship, cultural displacement, and the ways people shape one another's lives long after they have parted.