Giovannis Room Baldwin James (2007)

David, a young American in 1950s Paris, waits for his fiance to return from a holiday in Spain. When he meets Giovanni, a handsome Italian barman, the two men are drawn into an intense affair. After three months, Davids fiance returns, and, denying who he is, he rejects Giovanni in favour of a safe future as a married man. The decision brings tragedy in James Baldwins groundbreaking second novel, which established him as one of the great American writers of his time.