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Now a Major Motion Picture from Director Luca Guadagnino, Starring Armie Hammer and Timothe Chalamet, and Written by Three Time Academy Award Nominee James IvoryAn Instant Classic and One of the Great Love Stories of Our TimeAndre Aciman's Call Me by Your Name 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. Each is unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, when, during the restless summer weeks, unrelenting currents of obsession, fascination, and desire intensify their passion and test the charged ground between them. Recklessly, the two verge toward the one thing both fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy. It is an instant classic and one of the great love stories of our time.Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for FicitionA New York Times Notable Book of the Year * A Publishers Weekly and The Washington Post Best Book of the Year * A New York Magazine "Future Canon" Selection * A Chicago Tribune and Seattle Times (Michael Upchurch's) Favorite Favorite Book of the Year



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André Aciman

André Aciman is an American memoirist, essayist, and New York Times bestselling novelist originally from Alexandria, Egypt. He has also written many essays and reviews on Marcel Proust. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The New Republic, Condé Nast Traveler, The Paris Review, Granta as well as in many volumes of The Best American Essays.Aciman grew up in a multilingual and multinational family and attended English-language schools, first in Alexandria and later, after his family moved to Italy in 1965, in Rome. In 1968, Aciman's family moved again, this time to New York City, where he graduated in 1973 from Lehman College. Aciman received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University and, after teaching at Princeton University and Bard College, is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York. He is currently chair of the Ph. D. Program in Comparative Literature and founder and director of The Writers' Institute at the Graduate Center. He has also taught creative writing at New York University, Cooper Union, and and Yeshiva University. In 2009, Aciman was also Visiting Distinguished Writer at Wesleyan University.Aciman is the author of the Whiting Award-winning memoir Out of Egypt (1995) , an account of his childhood as a Jew growing up in post-colonial Egypt. His books and essays have been translated in many languages. In addition to Out of Egypt (1995) , Aciman has published False Papers: Essays in Exile and Memory (2001) and Alibis: Essays on Elswhere (2011) , and four novels, Enigma Variations (2017) , Harvard Square (2013) , Eight White Nights (2010) and Call Me By Your Name (2007) , for which he won the Lambda Literary Award for Men's Fiction (2008) . He also edited Letters of Transit (1999) and The Proust Project (2004) and prefaced Monsieur Proust (2003) , The Light of New York (2007) , Condé Nast Traveler's Room With a View (2010) and Stefan Zweig's Journey to the Past (2010) . His novel Call Me by Your Name has been turned into a film (2017) , directed by Luca Guadagnino, with a screenplay by James Ivory, and starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet.He is currently working on his fifth novel and a collection of essays.



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