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Call Me by Your Name
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  • paperback· 256 pp9781843546535
First published 2007

Call Me by Your Name

By André Aciman

Heat level
Explicit

It's the summer of 1983, and precocious 17-year-old Elio Perlman is spending the days with his family at their 17th-century villa in Lombardy, Italy. He soon meets Oliver, a handsome doctoral student who's working as an intern for Elio's father. Amid the sun-drenched splendor of their surroundings, Elio and Oliver discover the heady beauty of awakening desire over the course of a summer that will alter their lives forever.

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M/M RomanceSettingQueer RomanceSettingAge Gap (older hero)RelationshipPiningRelationshipSlow BurnRelationshipForbidden LoveRelationshipMutual PiningRelationshipForced ProximityRelationship
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