Description
A Los Angeles Times Bestseller A Vulture Book Club Pick An Instant Classic and One of the Great Love Stories of Our Time Andre Aciman's Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. Each is unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, when, during the restless summer weeks, unrelenting currents of obsession, fascination, and desire intensify their passion and test the charged ground between them. Recklessly, the two verge toward the one thing both fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy. It is an instant classic and one of the great love stories of our time. Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Ficition A New York Times Notable Book of the Year - A Publishers Weekly and The Washington Post Best Book of the Year - A New York Magazine Future Canon Selection - A Chicago Tribuneand Seattle Times (Michael Upchurch's) Favorite Favorite Book of the Year
Author: André Aciman
Publisher: Alfaguara
Published: 05/29/2018
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781947783706
ISBN10: 194778370X
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Romance | LGBTQ+ | Gay
- Fiction | Media Tie-In
About the Author
André Aciman (Alejandría, 1951) nació en el seno de una familia judía sefardí de origen turco. Formado en la Universidad de Harvard, ha sido profesor de Literatura Comparada y Escritura Creativa en el Bard College y en las universidades de Princeton y Nueva York. Es muy conocido como ensayista y estudioso de la obra de Marcel Proust. En 1995 publicó La huida de Egipto, un libro de memorias sobre su infancia y adolescencia en Egipto durante las décadas de 1950 y 1960, que mereció el prestigioso Whiting Award. Posteriormente publicaría los ensayos False Papers: Essays on Exile and Memory (2000), Reflections of an Uncertain Jew (2000) y Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere (2011), y participaría como coautor y editor de las obras The Proust Project (2004) yLetters of Transit (1999). Ha publicado cuatro novelas: Llámame por tu nombre (Alfaguara, 2007, 2018), llevada al cine por Luca Guadagnino, Ocho noches blancas (2010), Harvard Square (2013) y Enigma Variations (2017).