Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman

Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman

"Call Me By Your Name" is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blooms between seventeen-year-old Elio and his father's house guest Oliver during a restless summer on the Italian Riviera. Unrelenting currents of obsession and fear, fascination and desire threaten to overwhelm the lovers who at first feign indifference to the charge between them. What grows from the depths of their souls is a romance of scarcely six weeks' duration, and an experience that marks them for a lifetime. For what the two discover on the Riviera and during a sultry evening in Rome is the one thing they both already fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy.The psychological manoeuvres that accompany attraction have seldom been more shrewdly captured than in Andre Aciman's frank and unsentimental elegy to human passion. "Call Me By Your Name" is clear-eyed, bare-knuckled and ultimately unforgettable.

"'A superb novel about the sensuous light of the Mediterranean summer, the languorous days and nights filled with desire.. wonderful.' Colm Toibin 'Brave, acute, elated, naked, brutal, tender, humane and beautiful... If you can't handle the violence of regret the novel will awaken in you, or the agony of remembering wanting someone more than you wanted anything in your life, or the exquisite suffering that comes with the gain, and loss, of something that neared perfect understanding, then don't read this book... Otherwise, open the cover and let Aciman pull the pin from the grenade.' Nicole Krauss 'An exceptionally beautiful book... A first novel that abounds in moments of emotional and physical abandon... As much a story of paradise found as it is of paradise lost... Exquisite... Extraordinary.' Stacey D'Erasmo, New York Times 'The most exciting new fiction writer of the 21st century. Few novels since Proust's In Search of Lost Time are this adept at capturing the nuances of human emotion.' Diana Fuss, New York Magazine"

André Aciman teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He lives in New York City. Call Me By Your Name is his first novel.

SKU	GOR001514360
ISBN 13	9781843546528
ISBN 10	1843546523
Title	Call Me By Your Name
Author	Andre Aciman
Condition	Very Good
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Atlantic Books
Year published	2008-05-01
Number of pages	256
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