Summary of Call Me by Your Name
“Call Me by Your Name” is a modern gay romance novel about an Italian boy’s infatuation with an American exchange student who spends the summer of 1983 at his family’s house on the Italian Riviera.
Reasons to read Call Me by Your Name
“Call Me by Your Name” was an international bestseller, named Book of the Year by several American newspapers, and adapted into a film in 2017 by Luca Guadagnino, starring Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer. André Aciman, an Italian-American writer, has written other books set in Italy, including “Find Me” (a sequel to “Call Me by Your Name”) and “The Gentleman from Peru” (set on the Amalfi Coast).
Setting: Bordighera, Italian Riviera (Italy)
Book set in Italy: Bordighera and Rome – While the exact location of “Call Me by Your Name” is not specified in the novel, references to the painter Monet suggest that it is most likely set in Bordighera, near the Italian-French border.
Original title: Call Me by Your Name
Year of publication: 2007
Nr of pages: 256
