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Who is this book for?
- Readers who like delicate love stories and coming-of-age novels
- People who have seen the film and want to read the original
- Readers interested in gay literature
- People who like Proustian writing about memory
Who is the author?
- André Aciman, born in 1951 in Egypt, holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Harvard University
- He now teaches comparative literature and Proust at the City University of New York
- The book won the Lambda Literary Award, and the film adaptation won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
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A summer that split a life in two
The publisher's introduction begins this way: in the summer he was seventeen, Elio felt his life split in two from then on, one half before he met Oliver and the other half after. Wikipedia summarizes that this coming-of-age novel, published in 2007 and set in northern Italy in 1983, tells of the sudden and intense feelings between the teenager Elio and the visiting American scholar Oliver, and the twenty years that follow.
The summer guest, every year
Guessing and probing
Monet's Berm
Three days in Rome
The father's words
Call me by your name
The twenty years after
A narrative of looking back
A grammarian who precisely describes desire
The author, Aciman
Awards and acclaim
The Oscar-winning film
The sequel and the bans
How to read this book
The Chinese edition
Bottles that drifted to this book
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Shang's reading list
Voyager's Guide
The world
The Sea of Books has 24 real islands, one for each subject. Every building on an island is a book.
What you can do now
- Tap an island on the chart to go ashore
- Tap a building to read the notes on that book
- Meet Shang, the Navigator
Coming soon
- Chapter 2: register as a voyager, sail your ship, collect building badges, send bottles
- Chapter 4: private chats with other voyagers
Symbols
Ship's Registry
Before you set sail, let's get your ship registered.