Find Me: A Novel

Find Me: A Novel

<p><b>In this spellbinding exploration of the varieties of love, the author of the worldwide bestseller <i>Call Me by Your Name</i> revisits its complex and beguiling characters decades after their first meeting.</b> </p><p>No novel in recent memory has spoken more movingly to contemporary readers about the nature of love than André Aciman’s haunting <i>Call Me by Your Name</i>. First published in 2007, it was hailed as “a love letter, an invocation . . . an exceptionally beautiful book” (Stacey D’Erasmo, <i>The New York Times Book Review</i>). Nearly three quarters of a million copies have been sold, and the book became a much-loved, Academy Award–winning film starring Timothée Chalamet as the young Elio and Armie Hammer as Oliver, the graduate student with whom he falls in love. </p><p>In <i>Find Me</i>, Aciman shows us Elio’s father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, who has become a gifted classical pianist. A chance encounter on the train with a beautiful young woman upends Sami’s plans and changes his life forever.</p><p>Elio 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. </p><p>Aciman is a master of sensibility, of the intimate details and the emotional nuances that are the substance of passion. <i>Find Me</i> brings us back inside the magic circle of one of our greatest contemporary romances to ask if, in fact, true love ever dies.</p>