Call Me by Your Name
It's the summer of 1983, and precocious 17-year-old Elio Perlman is spending the days with his family at their 17th-century villa in Lombardy, Italy. He soon meets Oliver, a handsome doctoral student who's working as an intern for Elio's father. Amid the sun-drenched splendor of their surroundings, Elio and Oliver discover the heady beauty of awakening desire over the course of a summer that will alter their lives forever.
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In a coastal Italian villa one 1980s summer, seventeen-year-old Elio watches the latest of his father's visiting graduate students arrive: confident, charming, twenty-four-year-old American Oliver. Six weeks at the sea.
Yes. Luca Guadagnino directed a 2017 film adaptation starring Timothee Chalamet and Armie Hammer. The film won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and was nominated for Best Picture.
Yes. Andre Aciman published Find Me in 2019, a sequel that revisits the characters years later. Reception was mixed; some readers consider it a worthy continuation, others prefer to leave the original ending.
Call Me by Your Name was written by Andre Aciman, published in 2007 by Atlantic Books, Limited.
Call Me by Your Name is 256 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Call Me by Your Name takes most readers 4 to 6 hours to finish.
Call Me by Your Name is a standalone novel by Andre Aciman, not part of a series.
Call Me by Your Name is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
