A journey through the deepest corners of feelings and eroticism.
Call Me by Your Name has been awarded the Lambda Literary Award, named Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and Publishers Weekly, and is the novel on which the film Call Me by Your Name is based.
In a town on the coast of Italy, during the 1980s, Elio's family established the tradition of hosting young students or creators in the summer who, in exchange for lodging, would assist the head of the family, a professor, in his cultural commitments.
Oliver is the chosen one this summer, a young American writer who soon excites Elio's imagination. Over the following weeks, hidden impulses of obsession and fear, fascination and desire will intensify their passion.
Author's biography
André Aciman was born in 1951 in Alexandria, into a Sephardic Jewish family of Turkish origin. Educated at Harvard University, he has been a professor of Comparative Literature and Creative Writing at Bard College and at Princeton and New York universities. Regarding his creative work, he is well known as an essayist and scholar of Marcel Proust's work. In 1996, Out of Egypt, a memoir about his childhood and adolescence, was published and earned the prestigious Whiting Award. Later, he published the essay collection False Papers: Essays on Exile and Memory, the novel Eight White Nights, and participated as coauthor and editor in the works Letters of Transit and The Proust Project. Alfaguara has published Enigma Variations (2019); Call Me by Your Name (2008), his first novel, successfully adapted into film by Luca Guadagnino and which received the Lambda Literary Award and the distinction as best book of the year from Publishers Weekly and The Washington Post; and Find Me (2020), its long-awaited sequel. Homo irrealis is his latest book.
