![]() ![]() ![]() I always felt that I had to finish Call Me by Your Name in great haste because I was doing another book. This is one of those things that I’ve tried many, many times to pick up. Vanity Fair: When did you decide you were going to write a follow-up to Call Me by Your Name?Īndré Aciman: I’ve always known. Here, he picks up the phone for a wide-ranging interview. In Find Me, Aciman digs even deeper into older iterations of the beloved pair (plus a long section focusing on the psyche of Elio’s father, a supporting player in the original book)-this time portraying love and desire primarily through lack, loss, and comparison. Call Me by Your Name didn’t just encompass those fateful dog days, it ended with brief moments of reconnection the following winter, and then 15 and 20 years later. Now he’s done what he always planned to: picked the story back up. Aciman’s fan base grew, and there were immediate pleas for a sequel. A decade after the book’s release-during which Aciman wrote three more novels and an essay collection-the book received the Luca Guadagnino treatment, a celluloid pleasure-chest starring Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer. ![]() In 2007, André Aciman released his debut novel, the rapturous, desire-drenched Call Me by Your Name, which follows teenage Elio and grad student Oliver over one formative summer in Italy. ![]()
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