Call Me by Your Name

What Call Me by Your Name is about

Elio Perlman is seventeen in the summer of 1983, living with his parents at their 17th-century villa in Lombardy, Italy. Every year the family hosts a doctoral student for six weeks, someone to revise a manuscript and help Elio's father with his academic paperwork. This year's guest is Oliver, an American scholar who is easygoing and detached where Elio is watchful and inward.

Elio tells the story as a memory, looking back on the weeks when he recognizes his own desire and finds himself drawn to Oliver. Along the way there is a affair with Marzia, a childhood friend who loves him, and a few days in Rome before Oliver leaves. Written by André Aciman in 2007, it is a lyrical, sensual and wistful novel about first love, identity, and the lives we might have lived, with a father whose understanding gives the story much of its warmth.

Questions about Call Me by Your Name

When was Call Me by Your Name published?

Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman was first published in 2007.

Was Call Me by Your Name one of the best books of 2007?

Call Me by Your Name is #7 on BookWard's Best Books of 2007, out of 53 2007 books that cleared our data bar. 1,400 readers have shelved it on Open Library; readers rate it 4.1 out of 5 (75 ratings); 80 are reading it right now.

Why is Call Me by Your Name on the Best Books of 2007 list?

1,400 readers have shelved it on Open Library; readers rate it 4.1 out of 5 (75 ratings); 80 are reading it right now.

More of the best books of 2007

• Dog Days Jeff Kinney, #1
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows J. K. Rowling, #2
• The Titan's Curse Rick Riordan, #3
• A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini, #4
• Rodrick Rules Jeff Kinney, #5
• The Name of the Wind Patrick Rothfuss, #6

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