Call Me by Your Name, by André Aciman, is a poignant coming-of-age novel set on the sun-drenched Italian Riviera during the 1980s. Seventeen-year-old Elio Perlman's life changes when Oliver, a charismatic twenty-four-year-old American scholar, arrives to spend the summer working with his father. Amid lazy afternoons, intellectual conversations, and the sensual beauty of the Mediterranean landscape, Elio and Oliver develop an intense, unspoken attraction that blossoms into a passionate love affair. Exploring themes of desire, identity, and the transformative power of first love, the novel is a haunting meditation on memory and longing that lingers long after summer's end.
