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Call Me by Your Name is a 2007 coming-of-age novel written by Italian-American writer André Aciman.Set in the 1980s, the novel centers on the sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between student Elio Perlman and visiting American scholar Oliver, chronicling their relationship and the 20 years that follow.
André Aciman (/ ˈ æ s ɪ m ə n /; [1] born 2 January 1951) is an Italian-American writer. Born and raised in Alexandria, Egypt, he is currently a distinguished professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he teaches the history of literary theory and the works of Marcel Proust.
The Guardian wrote "The absence of a conventional sense of story or structure reflects the musical form that Aciman is invoking, making this a clever experiment but also a frustrating one." [2] The New York Times wrote "if you think Aciman has explored this territory before — true, but he’s up to something bolder this time. This book reads ...
On Books in the Media, the book was rated 3.30 out of 5, based on six critic reviews. [12] In the January/February 2020 issue of Bookmarks , the book was scored 2.5 out of 5. The magazine's critical summary reads: "While readers will ultimately be rewarded by a final chapter that returns to Elio and Oliver, they may not feel the journey has ...
The book is compared "with The Liars Club by Mary Karr and Andre Aciman's Out of Egypt as a classic modern memoir." McCourt writes without bitterness about his epic tale of woe, though "there is plenty a less generous writer might well be judgmental about." The review is peppered with quotations from the book showing the author's style.
The foreign resident population in Egypt numbered around 200,000 by the end of World War 1. [1] This movement of foreign nationals leaving Egypt was precipitated by various factors such as political instability, the Suez Crisis, the abolition of the capitulations system, and the rise of Egyptian nationalism under Gamal Abdel Nasser.
Call Me by Your Name, a 2007 novel by André Aciman; Call Me by Your Name, a 2017 film based on the novel, directed by Luca Guadagnino Call Me by Your Name: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, the soundtrack to the 2017 film Call Me by Your Name; Call Me by Your Name, a 2015 album by Matthew S and Von Felthen
Call Me by Your Name (Italian: Chiamami col tuo nome) is a 2017 coming-of-age romantic drama film directed by Luca Guadagnino.Its screenplay, by James Ivory, who also co-produced, is based on the 2007 novel by André Aciman.