Call Me by Your Name is the story of a passionate friendship between Elio, a musical and erudite boy, and the American intellectual Oliver, who stays as a summer guest with Elio's parents on the Italian coast. At first they feign indifference towards each other, but what really lies dormant is irresistible attraction. The scanning begins. From the depths of their being something blossoms that will mark them for life. Because what they discover is complete recognition and surrender.

Rarely has an author captured the psychological maneuvers of attraction more astutely than André Aciman in this novel: an unapologetic, unsentimental and heartbreaking ode to passion.