Call Me by Your Name

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By André Aciman

The summer of 1983, at a seventeenth-century villa in Lombardy where Elio Perlman’s family spends every summer. Elio is seventeen, precocious, and bored, until Oliver arrives: a handsome American doctoral student staying six weeks as his father’s intern.

What passes between them over that summer is told years afterwards, by a narrator who has never stopped going over it. A novel about desire, about the things not said in time, and about how long a season can last.

First published 2007