The first half of this book is about Sami Perlman – yes, you read that correctly, your eyes are still working. Now you have been warned, I will be spoiling this book if you haven’t read it already because I need to talk about what actually happened in this book to explain my feelings about it. They were featured in only the second half of the book and they only got 11 pages together! I trudged through this book just to get to the end and get 11 pages of Elio and Oliver together and I was so disappointed in everything I read before that I almost didn’t care. My problem is that it wasn’t about them, not really. Find Me brings us back inside the magic circle of one of our greatest contemporary romances to ask if, in fact, true love ever dies. A chance encounter on the train with a beautiful young woman upends Sami’s plans and changes his life forever.Įlio soon moves to Paris, where he, too, has a consequential affair, while Oliver, now a New England college professor with a family, suddenly finds himself contemplating a return trip across the Atlantic.Īciman is a master of sensibility, of the intimate details and the emotional nuances that are the substance of passion. In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio’s father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, who has become a gifted classical pianist. Nearly three quarters of a million copies have been sold, and the book became a much-loved, Academy Award–winning film starring Timothée Chalamet as the young Elio and Armie Hammer as Oliver, the graduate student with whom he falls in love.
an exceptionally beautiful book” (Stacey D’Erasmo, The New York Times Book Review). First published in 2007, it was hailed as “a love letter, an invocation. No novel in recent memory has spoken more movingly to contemporary readers about the nature of love than André Aciman’s haunting Call Me by Your Name. In this spellbinding exploration of the varieties of love, the author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name revisits its complex and beguiling characters decades after their first meeting.
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