Call Me By Your Name

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The explosive international bestseller, multi-million-copy modern classic, and the profound literary inspiration behind the Academy Award-winning film! From the exceptionally gifted André Aciman comes Call Me by Your Name—a brilliantly written, exquisitely paced, and intensely atmospheric masterpiece. Shifting focus to the sun-drenched, sensory paradise of Northern Italy, this unputdownable book delivers a spectacular, multi-layered puzzle of human desire, intellectual intimacy, and raw emotional vulnerability. Packed with a scorching, high-steam slow-burn chemistry and deep psychological depth, it will hold you captive from its opening sentence until its devastatingly tender, unforgettable finale.

Set during a deceptively beautiful, sultry summer on the Italian Riviera, the story traces the sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between Elio, a deeply sensitive seventeen-year-old musical prodigy, and Oliver, a charming, confident twenty-four-year-old American scholar staying as a summer guest at his parents’ cliff-side mansion. Entirely unprepared for the life-altering consequences of their initial physical and intellectual attraction, both young men initially feign a cold indifference to protect their boundaries. But during the restless summer weeks that follow, unrelenting buried currents of obsession, fear, intense fascination, and raw desire completely fracture their defenses, intensifying their passion as they cautiously test the highly charged ground between them.

What grows from the depths of their spirits is a whirlwind romance of scarcely six weeks’ duration—a brief, unscripted sanctuary in time that permanently marks their lives forever. As they navigate the ancient, winding streets of the Riviera and share a sultry, liberating evening exploring Rome, they discover the one elusive asset both already fear they may never truly find again: absolute, total intimacy. Aciman masterfully maps out the complex internal maneuvers that accompany human attraction, creating a bare-knuckled, clear-eyed, and heartrending elegy to the beautiful precarity of first love.

Trapped in close quarters behind the villa’s sun-bleached shutters, their initial intellectual sparring quickly gives way to a fierce, protective devotion. As their names literally and symbolically merge, they experience a profound psychological transformation and emotional healing that transcends the strict rules of their everyday realities. Written with a gorgeous, soulful intensity, this novel explores the raw anxiety of letting go and the enduring legacy of a love that shapes a lifetime.

Masterfully executing the literary fiction, LGBTQ+ coming-of-age, summer romance, forced proximity, and psychological drama genres, Call Me by Your Name delivers an atmospheric, high-energy comfort read. Brimming with poetic prose, unforgettable dualities, and raw emotional vulnerability, this premium Atlantic Books paperback tie-in edition is a landmark achievement in modern fiction. It stands as an essential, mandatory masterpiece for your personal literary collection.