

A chance encounter on the train with a beautiful young woman upends Sami's plans and changes his life forever.Įlio soon moves to Paris, where he, too, has a consequential affair, while Oliver, now a New England college professor with a family, suddenly finds himself contemplating a return trip across the Atlantic.Īciman is a master of sensibility, of the intimate details and the emotional nuances that are the substance of passion.īrings us back inside the magic circle of one of our greatest contemporary romances to ask if, in fact, true love ever dies. , Aciman shows us Elio's father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, who has become a gifted classical pianist.

Nearly three quarters of a million copies have been sold, and the book became a much-loved, Academy Award-winning film starring Timoth e Chalamet as the young Elio and Armie Hammer as Oliver, the graduate student with whom he falls in love. We began to communicate via long rambling. Shields and Andre Agassi met in 1993 and began dating over fax. After watching ‘Call me by your name’ and feeling that heartache of a long forgotten first encounter with the loss of love, and then writing a musing based on the incredible characters Oliver and Elio as a tribute to Andrè Aciman’s master-piece on so.by. an exceptionally beautiful book" (Stacey D'Erasmo, Shields and Andre Agassi were married from 1997 to 1999. First published in 2007, it was hailed as "a love letter, an invocation.

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