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Call Me by Your Name first swept across the world in 2007. It is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. During the restless summer weeks, unrelenting but buried currents of obsession, fascination, and desire intensify their passion as they test the charged ground between them and verge toward the one thing both already fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy. André Aciman's critically acclaimed debut novel is a frank, unsentimental, heartrending elegy to human passion.

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Listening Length	7 hours and 48 minutes
Author	André Aciman
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Audible.com.au Release Date	03 October 2017
Publisher	Macmillan Audio
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Language	English
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Not the kind of novel I was expecting...

Reviewed in Australia on 5 October 2020

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‘Call Me By Your Name’ is the story of a crush. A love affair between Elio, a high schooler, and Oliver, a PhD student from the University that Elio’s father teaches at. There is a melancholic romantic tone in the novel’s writing style, which is duplicated expertly in the cinematography with sweeping vistas of the Italian countryside, and lengthy silences throughout the narrative.

The narration has a beautiful cadence and reads like Elio's journal, complete with inner musings, pontifications, daydreams and erotic fantasies. However I found it difficult to immerse myself into and speed-read the entire novel. The writing style did not sit well with me. It felt fanciful and full of itself... selfish. I found myself craving for more structure, more dialogue.

Elio as a protagonist felt like a mix of intelligence, petulance, and aggressive/possessive hormone fuelled adolescence.

It felt uncomfortable the boy lusting after a man, Oliver, more than 7 years his senior. (This situation is legally statutory rape in our country.) Elio’s overtly flirtatious nature - and his intentions sometimes returned. A mix between grooming behaviour of a paedophile and removing himself from the equation as to not be overcome by his desires. The teacher in me felt extremely uncomfortable. Elio and Oliver wouldn't be sneaking around and trying to hide their actions if they didn't know what they were doing was wrong.

Then Oliver gives in to his desires and confirms to me of being the paedophile he is. Elio has regret, then turns into a tremendous flirt only to then go and have sex with Mariza... completely ruled by his lower region. What a floozy. This book is making me feel sick where everyone is throwing their cat around and ignoring the ramifications. For having such an inconsolable crush on Oliver, when Elio sleeps with Marzia on a whim and apparently likes it, wants to brag about it. No loyalty, no conviction. This increased my loss of respect for Elio.

Did they seriously watch each other pooh and marvel at it in the toilet bowl. *retching sounds* The other thing that had me throwing up in my mouth is of Oliver eating the peach that Elio had climaxed into. Some may see it as twistedly romantic in a symbolic way, but I couldn’t bet over the hygienic aspect of it. I am such a clean freak. I want to scream triggered! It’s hilarious in a meta perspective.

There was an understated - delicate even - understanding of Elio’s father which I found endearing. However his hands-off approach leaves little to be desired. I would have preferred a father figure to help educate and guide Elio, instead of leaving his son to flounder around in the dark and figure things out by himself, and potentially placing him in dangerous situations.

I can appreciate the romantic symbolism, the artistic eye, but the situation in the real world kinda makes me angry. It’s not about being gay, but about placing a boy in a sexually vulnerable situation where the parents do not seem to care, (in fact they encourage Elio to find his sexuality and explore) and an older man allegedly grooming a high school student – even if he wrestles with his conscience – grosses me out. If this were about two boys around the same age I would have liked it so much better. I feel the artistic tone of the writing covers up the reality of how inappropriate this relationship is. ‘Call Me By Your Name’ feels like a gay version of ‘Lolita.’

I will not recommend this. There was no lesson to learn from the characters – the whole book read like some teen boy’s father-figure sexual fantasy. I won’t be reading the sequel ‘Find Me’ either – after reading reviews and how it deals with more fantasy gratification adultery, I’m sorry, I just can’t.

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A Life-Long Love Affair

Reviewed in Australia on 25 November 2019

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I watched the movie before I read the book. Like too different birds raised in the same nest. This story both enthalled me and frustrated me, just like life is supposed to. The frustration from all the things that were thought by the two lovers but never said to each other. But then love between two men, is the only true love, because only a man can love a man the way he wants to be loved. The books ending was completely different than the movie ending, but I enjoyed them both. A lovely story of true love.

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Rebecca Lyons

Oh hot damn, the sexual tension is crazy

Reviewed in Australia on 23 November 2020

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This is a story about a young boy named Elio set in Italy in the 80’s. Elie’s family have a summer home and often have many artists come and stay for the summer break. Elio is a unique young man whom feels alone.

Until Oliver arrives at her home, a moody writer whom will be there for 6 weeks. The tension is instant and their secret relationship slowly develops yet neither of them speak a word to a soul. Dreams turn to obsession, then to fear and then denial intensifying their passion for one another.

Women may come and go however they know deep down something is there. Everyone can see the chemistry but no one dares to say a thing.

“And we'll want to call it envy, because to call it regret would break our heart.”

I loved this beautiful, one of a kind love story, set in a time when relationships like theirs was seen as wrong. But Love is love and sometimes something so powerful cannot get ignored. There are some steamy scenes in this one!! Call me by your name was adapted into a movie in 2017. Looking forward to watching it.

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Clyde

Deeply Moving Must Read

Reviewed in Australia on 7 September 2018

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"Call Me By Your Name" is a beautiful, evocative, and deeply moving story about Elio and Oliver and how they fell, madly, deeply in love with each other over a few weeks in summer in Italy. I was stunned by its prose, the lyrical quality of the writing and most of all of Elio's intelligent, passionate story. Just read it. There are not enough stars to give this book. It is amazing!

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L. T. Coubrough

Sublime!!!!!

Reviewed in Australia on 23 December 2017

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I am left breathless. The beauty of this novel so moving I am almost left not wanting to read another for fear of breaking the spell it has left on my soul. Elio and Oliver are two perfectly formed characters who build a love that we would envy if not for the limited time they have together and the lifetime apart they endure with only the remembering to feed their hearts. This story is not to be missed but be prepared this is not a HEA it is survival in the aftermath.

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Sarah

A love story to warm & break your heart all at once

Reviewed in Australia on 10 October 2018

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One of the best books I've read in a long time. The Father character in this story has shaped my parenting in the most positive way. Too many positives to list. One of the finest pieces of literature I have read in years. It will stay with me forever. Forever a lump in my throat...

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Richard McDermott

Romance never looked as good

Reviewed in Australia on 13 February 2018

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A love story that takes you on a journey through the passion of a young man's desire for the exotic visitor. It begins with a vibrant description of his life as a precocious genius living with his indulgent parents with seemingly unlimited resources and time to indulge any sybaritic pleasure that comes his way. This story had all the elements to be reduced to just another 'gay porn' novella with the ubiquitous sex and love talk but the author raised this tale of a young man and an older visitor to that of a dream of another time. Italy at the turn of the century when life seemed to be based on intellectual conversation, music, art, meal times, siestas and the warm waters of the Mediterranean. When time seemed endless and bodies were warmed by the midday sun. The scene is set for out two protagonists to find passion and an intellectual connectivity in each other's arms.This story could have been written by EM Forster, if he were alive today but with the addition of the more juicy sex that he probably wished he could have added to his novels

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Rob

A dizzying love story

Reviewed in Australia on 27 May 2018

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A beautiful story that takes its time and lingers on the details as Elio discovers Oliver and himself. A little meandering in places, but when set in a place like B all I'd want to do is meander all day, every day. Give yourself a few months, it's easy to put down and pick up again if you need a break.

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Lindener

hocherotische Sommerliebe zwischen zwei Männern und mehr

Reviewed in Germany on 16 February 2018

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Ich habe gerade den Roman zu lesen beendet und ich weiß gar nicht, wohin mit mir. Das sitzt richtig tief. Natürlich bin ich über den Film zu dem Buch gekommen, habe das Buch zuerst begonnen, zwischendurch den Film in einer Vorpremiere OmU sehen können und es jetzt, wie gesagt, beendet. Wie eine Rezensentin vor mir musste ich zwischendurch das Buch beiseitelegen, weil ich dann doch überwältigt wurde. Ich finde es auch nicht leicht zu lesen. Für mich persönlich wäre das keine Sommerlektüre für den Strand. Dazu ist es neben der ganzen Poesie auch einfach zu traurig und komplex. Und das nochmal eine Stufe intensiver als im Film, der ja erst gegen Ende so richtig zubeißt. Der Roman ist eine Introspektive und eine Erinnerung zwanzig Jahre zurück.
"It is the first thing I remember about him, and I can hear it still today. Later! I shut my eyes, say the word, and I'm back in Italy, so many years ago, walking down the tree-lined driveway, watching him step out of the cab, billowy blue shirt, wide-open collar, sunglasses, straw hat, skin everywhere. Suddenly he's shaking my hand, handing me his backpack, removing his suitcase from the trunk of the cab, asking if my father is home."

Den ganzen Roman bestimmt von Anfang an ein melancholisch-sehnsüchtiger Grundton, der sich bis zum Ende hält und sich eher noch steigert. Ein Sehnen, das nie zu Ende geht. Das ganze Leben lang. Letztlich geht es hier um die Wirkung der Zeit auf die Menschen und ihre Gefühle und darum, dass ein Paradies nur in der Erinnerung aufrechterhalten werden kann. Darum, wie immer wieder Teile der Persönlichkeit herausgerissen und immer neue Schichten darübergelegt wurden, wie bei einer sehr alten Kirche. Darum wie man sich dabei oberflächlich verändert oder die äußeren Bedingungen, aber vielleicht tief unter den neuen Schichten noch einen Rest Ihrer Liebe von damals entdeckt werden kann. Etwas, was sie geprägt hat, auf der sie sich alles gründet.

Time makes us sentimental. Perhaps, in the end, it is because of time that we suffer.

Das Buch ist in vier Kapitel eingeteilt und die Geschichte der beiden Männer wird aus subjektiver Sicht Elios erzählt im Rückblick 20 Jahre später.

Im ersten trifft Elio (17) auf Oliver (24), den amerikanischen Doktoranden, der über sechs Wochen in Ihrem Haus in Italien verbringen soll, um dort zu arbeiten. Vom ersten Moment an richtet sich eine fast obsessive Aufmerksamkeit auf Oliver. Jeder Schritt, jede Aussage, jedes Verhalten Olivers wird analysiert und interpretiert, jede Stelle seines Körpers gescannt. Wir sind in Elios Kopf. Aber Oliver ist abweisend. Elio hasst ihn dafür aber im nächsten Moment verfällt er ihm wieder, sobald er von dem anderen etwas Aufmerksamkeit oder Zuspruch erfährt.

Im zweiten und längsten Kapitel gesteht Elio nach ca. zwei Wochen der Qualen Oliver seine Empfindungen. Trotz Zögerns seitens Olivers beginnt eine erst sehr vorsichtige Annäherung, die noch über weitere zwei Wochen andauert bis auch bei Ihm alle Schranken fallen.

Im dritten Kapitel verbringen beide gemeinsam Olivers letzte Tage in Rom, wo sie das erste mal außerhalb des paradiesischen elterlichen Hauses sind, fern von Elios Familie.

Im letzten Kapitel beschreibt Elio Treffen der beiden 15 und 20 Jahre später und wie er versucht herauszufinden, was von Ihrer Liebe noch überlebt hat. Dieser Teil ist der melancholischste, dichteste und schönste und fehlt im Film fast vollständig. So viele der poetischen Sätze in diesem Kapitel könnte man einrahmen und an die Wand hängen.

Die Sprache ist dicht, intensiv und sehr erotisch, dabei aber wunderschön und nie pornografisch.. Emotional aber nicht kitschig. Die Sätze sind teilweise sehr lang und verwunden:

…It would finally dawn on us both that he was more me than I had ever been myself, because when he became me and I became him in bed so many years ago, he was and would forever remain, long after every forked road in life had done its work, my brother, my friend, my father, my son, my husband, my lover, myself.

Dieser Satz beschreibt auch gefühlvoll die Essenz dieser Liebe, die vielleicht weit über eine Beziehung hinausgeht. Sie finden sich jeweils selbst durch den anderen. "Call me by Your name and I'll call You by mine". Alles was ein Mann für Elio sein kann, war vereinigt in Oliver. Allumfassend und total, bis hin zum Verschmelzen zu einem gemeinsamen Wesen. Hier werden Vorstellungen aus der Antike wieder erweckt.
Von solchen wunderschönen sinnlichen Sätzen gibt es so viele in diesem Buch, hier noch ein Beispiel:

From this moment on, I thought, from this moment on – I had , as I'd never before in my life, the distinct feeling of arriving somewhere very dear, of wanting it forever, of being me, me, me, me and no one else, just me, of finding in each shiver that ran down my arms something totally alien and yet by no means unfamiliar, as if all this had been part of me all my life and I'd misplaced it and he helped me find it.

Der Autor arbeitet auch mit der Vorstellung von gespiegelten Liebhabern, die den jeweils anderen bei dem eigenen Namen nennen, Das Symbol Ihrer Verbundenheit und Einheit (und Gleichheit), wobei die Spiegelung auch ein eindeutig queeres Element der Geschichte bildet. Auch die beiden Namen sind bewusst gewählt: Wenn man das V und das R aus OLIVER entfernt, bleibt OLIE übrig, aus dem man ELIO bilden kann. Oliver ist in Elios Augen die vollkommenere und bessere Version von sich selbst. Er schaut zu ihm auf, vergöttert ihn, will zugleich bei ihm sein und er sein. Man kann das im wahren Leben bei den sogenannten „Boyfriend Twins“ beobachten.

Auch der Austausch von Körperflüssigkeiten wird hier zu einem philosophischen Akt:

I believe with every cell in my body that every cell in yours must not, must never, die, and if it does have to die, let it die inside my body.

Wichtig ist hier auch, dass die Pfirsichszene, über die alle sprechen, die den Film gesehen haben, hier wirklich eine starke Symbolkraft hat und hier auf etwas andere Art stattfindet. Ein Grund mehr, das Buch zu lesen.

Diese Liebesgeschichte ist sicherlich für alle verständlich und auch nachfühlbar, wenn man nicht gänzlich homophob ist (erste Liebe, Sehnsucht und Verlust und Schmerz). Ich finde, dass jeder sie lesen sollte. Und doch finde ich „universell“ („Coming - Of- Age- Liebesgeschichte“) etwas zu allgemein formuliert. Das wird immer gerne gesagt, um eine Geschichte aufwerten zu wollen und meint, damit ein größeres Publikum ansprechen zu können. Es ist aber auch eindeutig eine queere Geschichte und ersetzte man eine Figur durch eine Frau, würde alles gar keinen Sinn ergeben, z.B. die Spiegelung. Die Poesie dieser Geschichte wäre dahin. Verheimlichen müssen die Jungs Ihre Beziehung. Scham spielt eine Rolle, sowohl bei Elio nach dem ersten Sex mit Oliver als auch bei diesem wegen seiner Eltern, die ihn in eine Anstalt gesteckt hätten, hätten sie davon erfahren. Wenn beide sich küssen wollen, nur dann wenn keiner hinsieht. Ihre Liebe lebt gleichsam nur in einem Arkadien. Elio erzählt seinen Eltern einmal am Frühstückstisch, dass er beinahe mit einem Mädchen Sex gehabt hätte, hier spielt Scham keine Rolle.

Ich finde es ganz außerordentlich, wie ein heterosexueller Autor mann-männliches Begehren, Phantasien und Sehnsüchte in derart intensiver und erotischer Weise in Worte gefasst hat, dass ich sämtliche Gefühlszustände durchlebt habe.

We had found the stars, you and I. And this is given once only.

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M. J. Fitzgibbon

This is a beautifully written book charting a long 6 week vacation at ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 November 2017

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This is a beautifully written book charting a long 6 week vacation at a family’s Italian villa: along comes Oliver a lecturer at an American university who is mid-thesis and is working alongside the family father. Unexpectedly the American and the 17 year old son strike up a bond which rapidly develops into a love affair and meanders through a hot Italian and very beautiful landscape as a backdrop to both men learning what such feelings mean and how to express them - but then the age old issue of the impending summer sojourn coming to an end presses upon them. What to do? Without spoiling the ending there’s a degree of inevitability to the outcome but both have had a truly eye opening and liberating experience together (as is recognised by the father in his touching speech at the the end of the summer). What strikes you is the freedom the parties feel and the complete lack of judgement (except initially by Oliver at first) which creates a perfect atmosphere in which a very genuine and natural affection and desire can develop - taking both of them completely by surprise. Elio is the central narrator who, though extremely mature in most things, is finding his way with matters of the heart and soul but remains open to all possibilities. The flow of the interwoven relationships is effortless and the general feel of the story is one of humanity being allowed to go in whatever direction it desires.

The film is a lovely condensing of the love story and captures some of the rapture and desire of the book.

Thought provoking in its unchallenged freedom - let there be more of this.

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Much more than just a gay love story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 February 2018

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As someone who tends to actively avoid "new adult", especially when romance is involved this was a rare foray for me. Most of those novels have intensely irritating characters with levels of maturity that leave you questioning their ability to tie shoelaces, never mind form a relationship.

This was different, whilst Elio ticks the seemingly required introverted, nerd on cusp of adulthood box; he has a genuine appreciation of the adults in his life and their wisdom. Yet he has the selfish wants of a teen, and this forms much of his inner dialogue. It does meander on at times and this is my reason for 4 rather than 5 stars.

When Oliver arrives to spend the summer with Elio's family he finds himself captivated by the older and (to Elio) sophisticated man. I think many reviewers have missed the subtlety of Elio's sexuality - he is sometimes confused about how he can engage in sex with a man and woman but it is his emotional attachment to Oliver that he finds hardest to rationalise.

I believe the author is showing us no matter how precocious Elio is, hormones and sex can make intelligence take a firm back seat. But he doesn't ruin his life or prospects, he simply falls in love for the first time. And to me that's the crux of the story, it's so rare to spend your life with the first person you fall for - but they also stay with you inside.

Maybe if Oliver had been braver their story would have had a different outcome, but I felt this story was truer to real life and much the better for it. I thought the ending was quite beautiful, and for me invoked the strongest emotional response.

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elbe

Beautifully described coming of age novel

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 March 2018

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So many 5 star reviews that say what I want to say. I'm late 50's and this threw me back to memories from my late teens and 20's. Anyone who can't identify with either of the characters and thinks this book is dull has not experienced love/life/infatuation or any of those emotions and feelings that the author describes so well. I'm a straight female but this book could have been written for any gender mix.

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Yoda

But it's the most special thing that can happen to you even if you are million miles apart from each other and all that you need to survive is nostalgia and a bittersweet feeling that you were a part of something beautiful.

Reviewed in India on 2 April 2018

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Boy! Where do I start! I watched the movie, I read the book, I watched the movie again and then I read the book again. The story deals amply with human intimacy. Intimacy that makes you understand every shred of another human being, that makes you relate to someone at such a level that you basically identify that person as a part of your very identity. Such connection rarely occurs, and even if it does, it's once in a lifetime thing. But it's the most special thing that can happen to you even if you are million miles apart from each other and all that you need to survive is nostalgia and a bittersweet feeling that you were a part of something beautiful.

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