Seventeen-year-old Elio, customarily summering with his family on the Italian Riviera, encounters 24-year-old grad student and houseguest Oliver, whose equally gregarious and laconic personality instantly arouses in Elio a longing that threatens to subsume his entire being. More so than any other queer-themed novel in recent memory, this is the one that I hear invoked by writers, scholars, and everyday readers alike, and to hear that its forthcoming film adaptation, slated for late November, is already garnering tremendous reviews makes this fierce devotee of its brilliance all the happier.Īndré Aciman’s masterpiece of mood and melancholy-interspersed with blazes of passion-takes what could be a saccharine premise and infuses it with emotion that is both credible and all-consuming. There are books that are so exquisitely rendered, so unfailing in the sweep of their stories and the exactitude of their language that simply hearing their titles causes you to fall back immediately into their pages.
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