Call Me by Your Name: A Novel (Unabridged)

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  Call Me by Your Name: A Novel (Unabridged)

  André Aciman Now a major motion picture from director Luca Guadagnino, starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet. Winner of the 2018 Academy Award for Adapted Screenplay
  
  Celebrate André Aciman's sensational novel with a dynamic new audiobook read by Armie Hammer
  
  A New York Times Notable Book of the Year 
  
  A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year 
  
  A Washington Post Best Fiction Book of the Year 
  
  A New York magazine "Future Canon" Selection 
  
  A Chicago Tribune Favorite Book of the Year 
  
  One of The Seattle Times' Michael Upchurch's Favorite Books of the Year 
  
  Call Me by Your Name first swept across the world in 2007. It 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. During the restless summer weeks, unrelenting but buried currents of obsession, fascination, and desire intensify their passion as they test the charged ground between them and verge toward the one thing both already fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy. André Aciman's critically acclaimed debut novel is a frank, unsentimental, heartrending elegy to human passion. 

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  Eight White Nights: A Novel (Unabridged)

  André Aciman Eight White Nights is an unforgettable journey through that enchanted terrain where passion and fear and the sheer craving to ask for love and to show love can forever alter who we are. A man in his late twenties goes to a large Christmas party in Manhattan where a woman introduces herself with three words: "I am Clara." Over the following seven days, they meet every evening at the same cinema. Overwhelmed yet cautious, he treads softly and won't hazard a move. The tension between them builds gradually, marked by ambivalence, hope, and distrust. As Andre, Aciman explores their emotions with uncompromising accuracy and sensuous prose, they move both closer together and farther apart, culminating on New Year's Eve in a final scene charged with magic and the promise of renewal.

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  Harvard Square: A Novel (Unabridged)

  André Aciman André Aciman has been hailed as "the most exciting new fiction writer of the 21st century" (New York magazine), a "brilliant chronicler of the disconnect...between who we are and who we wish we might have been" (Wall Street Journal), and a writer of "fiction at its most supremely interesting" (Colm Tóibín). Now, with his third and most ambitious novel, Aciman delivers an elegant and powerful tale of the wages of assimilation - a moving story of an immigrant’s remembered youth and the nearly forgotten costs and sacrifices of becoming an American.
  
  It’s the fall of 1977, and amid the lovely, leafy streets of Cambridge a young Harvard graduate student, a Jew from Egypt, longs more than anything to become an assimilated American and a professor of literature. He spends his days in a pleasant blur of 17th-century fiction, but when he meets a brash, charismatic Arab cab driver in a Harvard Square café, everything changes. Nicknamed Kalashnikov - Kalaj for short - for his machine-gun vitriol, the cab driver roars into the student’s life with his denunciations of the American obsession with "all things jumbo and ersatz" - Twinkies, monster television sets, all-you-can-eat buffets - and his outrageous declarations on love and the art of seduction. The student finds it hard to resist his new friend’s magnetism, and before long he begins to neglect his studies and live a double life: one in the rarefied world of Harvard, the other as an exile with Kalaj on the streets of Cambridge. Together they carouse the bars and cafés around Harvard Square, trade intimate accounts of their love affairs, argue about the American dream, and skinny-dip in Walden Pond. But as final exams loom and Kalaj has his license revoked and is threatened with deportation, the student faces the decision of his life: whether to cling to his dream of New-World assimilation or risk it all to defend his Old-World friend.
  
  Harvard Square is a sexually charged and deeply American novel of identity and aspiration at odds. It is also an unforgettable, moving portrait of an unlikely friendship from one of the finest stylists of our time.

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  Chiamami col tuo nome

  André Aciman "Chiamami col tuo nome" è il racconto dell'attrazione improvvisa e travolgente che sboccia tra due ragazzi, il diciassettenne Elio, figlio di un professore universitario, in vacanza con la famiglia nella loro villa in Riviera e un giovane ospite, invitato per l'estate, il ventiquattrenne Oliver, che sta lavorando alla sua tesi postdottorato. Quell'estate della metà degli anni Ottanta viene rievocata, a distanza di vent'anni, dal più giovane dei protagonisti. Sconvolti e totalmente impreparati di fronte allo scoppiare di questa passione, i due inizialmente tentano di simulare indifferenza, ma con l'avanzare dei giorni vengono travolti da un'inesorabile corrente di ossessione e paura, seduzione e desiderio, il vero protagonista del romanzo: "II desiderio che è in noi, e non è necessariamente riferito all'altro. Piuttosto l'altro rappresenta la promessa di un avvicinamento alla soddisfazione di questo bramare...". Quello che Elio e Oliver proveranno in quei giorni estivi e sospesi in Riviera e durante un'afosa notte romana sarà qualcosa che loro stessi sanno non si ripeterà mai più: un'intimità totale, assoluta, un'esperienza che li segnerà per tutta la vita.