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Call Me by Your Name

André Aciman

A 17-year-old and his father's American summer guest fall for each other at a family villa on the Italian Riviera in the 1980s

  • Literary fiction
  • Romantic
  • Melancholic
  • Forbidden love
  • Coming of age
  • Obsession
  • Slow & immersive
  • Medium read
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