Call Me By Your Name

In Call Me by Your Name, a teenage boy and a summer visitor at his parents' cliffside house on the Italian Riviera fall in love suddenly and intensely. Initially, each pretends to be unaffected by their desire, unprepared for its implications. However, when they test the heated ground between them throughout the restless summer weeks that follow, relentless subterranean currents of fixation and fear, intrigue and need, heighten their passion. From the depths of their souls, a relationship that lasts just six weeks and an event that stays with them forever are born. For what the couple finds is absolute intimacy—something they already worry they could never fully experience again—on the Riviera and on a steamy evening in Rome.

André Aciman has skillfully caught the psychological games that follow attraction in his candid, heartbreaking, and unsentimental elegy to human affection. Clear-eyed, bare-knuckled, and ultimately memorable is Call Me by Your Name.