A journey through the deepest corners of feelings and eroticism.
Call me by your name It has been awarded the Lambda Literary Award, named Best Book of the Year according to The Washington Post and Publishers Weeklyand it is the novel on which the film is based Call Me by Your Name.
In a town on the Italian coast, during the 1980s, Elio's family established the tradition of hosting students or young artists in the summer who, in exchange for accommodation, would help the head of the family, a professor, with his cultural commitments.
This summer, Oliver is the chosen one: a young American writer who soon sparks Elio's imagination. Over the next few weeks, hidden impulses of obsession and fear, fascination and desire, will intensify his passion.
Author's biography
André Aciman He was born in 1951 in Alexandria, into a Sephardic Jewish family of Turkish origin. Educated at Harvard University, he has taught Comparative Literature and Creative Writing at Bard College and at Princeton and New York Universities. In his creative work, he is best known as an essayist and scholar of the work of Marcel Proust. His book was published in 1996. Far from EgyptA memoir about his childhood and adolescence, which won the prestigious Whiting Award. He later published a collection of essays. False Papers: Essays on Exile and Memorythe novel Eight White Nights and participated as co-author and editor in the works Letters of Transit and The Proust Project. Alfaguara has published Enigma Variations (2019); Call me by your name (2008), her first novel, which was adapted into a highly successful film by Luca Guadagnino and won the Lambda Literary Award and the distinction of best book of the year from Publishers Weekly and The Washington Post; and Find me (2020), its highly anticipated sequel. Homo irrealis It is his latest book.
