Now a Major Motion Picture from Director Luca Guadagnino, Starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet, and Written by Three-Time Oscar™ Nominee James IvoryThe Basis of the Oscar-Winning Best Adapted ScreenplayA New York Times BestsellerA USA Today Bestseller A Los Angeles Times BestsellerA Vulture Book Club Pick An Instant Classic and One of the Great Love Stories of Our TimeAndre Aciman’s Call … Bestseller
A Vulture Book Club Pick
An Instant Classic and One of the Great Love Stories of Our Time
Andre Aciman’s Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents’ cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. Each is unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, when, during the restless summer weeks, unrelenting currents of obsession, fascination, and desire intensify their passion and test the charged ground between them. Recklessly, the two verge toward the one thing both fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy. It is an instant classic and one of the great love stories of our time.
Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Ficition
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year • A Publishers Weekly and The Washington Post Best Book of the Year • A New York Magazine “Future Canon” Selection • A Chicago Tribune and Seattle Times (Michael Upchurch’s) Favorite Favorite Book of the Year
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I loved this gorgeously-crafted movie and I think I loved the book even more…the way the author takes his readers through the tortured relationship is beautiful and haunting. More literary than fluffy, but definitely worth a read!
Unless it’s a book adaptation, I’m not a big movie watcher. However, every year, I tend to make up for it by binge watching all the Oscar nominations I can before the annual Academy Awards show. I watched Call Me by Your Name three times. It was that good.
Unlike other adaptations, Call Me by Your Name actually follows the book quite well. However, there is much more to the ending than the film shows, and for those of you who have seen the movie: Oliver eats the peach in the book. Yes, that scene.
If you enjoyed the film, I would 100% recommend still reading the book. There is so much internal dialogue, a multitude of breathtaking quotes about love and sexual identity, and of course there’s only so much thought you can conclude by viewing stares, facial expressions, and emotional responses. Such a lovely story with two very admirable ways to experience it. Check it out!
Even though the opening lines disclose a love affair is on the horizon, Aciman’s slow build to its consummation is both suspenseful and titillating in the best sense of the words. The first person interior monologue of the protagonist renders true yet illuminating. When a book allows you to revisit the sensation of one’s earliest attraction, encounter, life-changing love – that is great art. I loved this book’s premise almost as much as I loved the setting as to me there is nothing sexier than Italy and when a novel includes some dialogue in that beautiful language, well, let’s just say I could taste the perfect apricots. Loved from beginning to end. So intelligent and beautiful.
I loved this beautiful writing, the intensity, the story, EVERYTHING about this book. I listened to it on Audible and the narration was perfect. The most innocently erotic and provoking book I’ve ever read.
As readers, we talk about books with great opening lines and memorable first chapters. For example, the very first line from Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice, or from George Orwell’s 1984…
But this book quite possibly, has The Best last line/paragraph. Even now as I write this, tears are streaming down my face. I can’t stop thinking about it. Those lines will haunt me forever.
The concept of this story is not new. It’s not original. But it’s so very true and universal and thereby, extremely haunting and relatable. I dare anyone to read this book and not feel what Elio and Oliver felt.
It’s a book about first love, first heartbreak and all the things that come in between and even, after.
It’s a book that as a reader, I will forever and ever remember. And maybe revisit when I’m not so raw from finishing it.
It’s a book filled with words that are transcendental and as a writer, I will forever strive for such immortality.
It’s a masterpiece.
I couldn’t stop reading it.. it’s simply one of those books that you get so attached to, that when it’s over you feel empty and you won’t stop thinking about it.
A rich, langorous book that will leave you gasping for more. A touching coming of age, first love romance about a young man finding out who he is and how he fits into the world. A languid read with a setting so rich it is a character in its own right.
This book was recommended by my student (male and fifteen).
When a fifteen-year-old loves a book so much that he not only talks about it in front of the class, he recommends it to his friends (and teachers), and shares the book with them, I say, I’ve taught him well. Ahem! It’s a good book!
I was utterly compelled by both the story and Aciman’s vividly formed characters. A truly addictive read.
A most excellent read.
Didn’t like the movie, so thought I would try the book…..Not enjoyable either, as not enough detail to make it interesting, and found it boring and dull
Very unpopular opinion but OOF. I found Elio’s wordy narrative to be annoying at times, especially because I felt like it was done to make him seem more intellectual. For me, it just made him come off as unrealistic and unlikeable. Most of all though, I find Elio’s thoughts and actions to be disturbing. It’s very difficult for me to classify his obsession as ‘passionate’ vs just plain creepy.
The entire peach event was off-putting on its own but then to go on with:
“The bruised and damaged peach, like a rape victim, lay on its side on my desk, shamed, loyal, aching, and confused, struggling not to spill what I’d left inside.”
How anyone could think this would be a great descriptor is beyond me.
Overall disappointed that I didn’t enjoy it like I’d thought I would.
Being in Elio’s head was agonizingly wonderful!
great book
Amazing and absolutely beautiful book.
it is awsome
Just a wonderful read – great companion to the movie.
it’s the best book ever, in my opinion. it’s a book that will leave you wanting the same exact love that the main characters experience.
Incredibly lyrical coming-of-age story. Best I’ve read in years and certainly the best mm romance I’ve ever read.
Well written and memorable.