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Call Me By Your Name
Call Me By Your Name
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Book Introduction
A word from MD
This novel, which draws you in with the words "Later!", runs towards a beautiful and sparkling love.
Call Me By Your Name, winner of the 20th Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction and the original work of the film 'CALL ME BY YOUR NAME', boldly explores love and the world created by two people.
- Literature MD Kim Yu-ri
Directed by Luca Guadagnino, written by James Ivory, and starring Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer
The original novel of 『Call Me By Your Name』

'A Masterpiece of First Love' A full-length novel by André Aciman that delicately depicts the love between seventeen-year-old Elio and twenty-four-year-old Oliver through his sensual language.
When it was published overseas in 2007, it received rave reviews from the international press, including winning the Lambda Literary Award in the gay fiction category.
And 10 years later, it was reborn as the movie 『CALL ME BY YOUR NAME』, and was nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Original Score (〈Mystery of Love〉) at the 90th Academy Awards, including the Best Adapted Screenplay award, and once again caused a sensation by winning 57 awards at major film festivals around the world and being nominated in 193 categories.

A great love story.
Every line, every pain, every dizzying surge of emotion in this beautiful novel truly resonates within me.
-Michael Upchurch, [Seattle Times]

Elio, a seventeen-year-old boy whose life revolves around arranging, playing the piano, and reading books.
As usual, I spend the summer with my parents at a seaside villa in a small Italian town.
His parents often invite young scholars to work on their manuscripts before publishing, and that summer their guest is Oliver, a twenty-four-year-old American with an unfamiliar greeting: “Later!”
Elio falls in love with Oliver at first sight and falls for him without hesitation, captivating everyone he meets with his free-spirited yet mysterious charm.
Elio and Oliver hide their feelings for each other, but they share strange feelings and fall in love with each other unstoppably… … .
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index
If not later, then when?|9
Monet's Hill|87
San Clemente Syndrome|213
Empty Space|265

Into the book
The first memory that comes to mind when I think of him is this one word.
The voice that spoke like that still rings vividly in my ears.
later!
--- p.10

I'll play anything for you, until you tell me to stop, until it's lunchtime, until my fingers are bare.
I love doing things for you and I'd do anything for you, so just say it.
I liked it from the moment I saw it.
Even when I approached him in a friendly manner, he responded with an icy coldness.
I will never forget that this conversation took place between us, that there was an easy way to bring back the bright summer in the midst of a snowstorm.
--- p.23

There is a rule somewhere that if I fall for someone, the other person will fall for me too.
Amor ch'a null'amato amar perdona, Love makes the beloved love.
In the "Inferno" section, Francesca said that love is something that no one can avoid, that it is the one who is loved.
Let's wait with hope.
I had hope.
Maybe what I wanted to do from the beginning was to wait forever.
--- p.44

“Why are you saying this?”
“I thought you should know.”
“I thought I should know...” He repeated my words as if he was deep in thought.
--- p.95

Where have I been all this time? Oliver, where were you when I was a child? It was also a question: "What would life be without this?"
Not once, but several times at the end, “If I stop here, I will suffer to death.
That's why it was I, not him, who said, "If I stop here, I'll be miserable to death."
It was the way to complete my dreams and fantasies, the words of desire that went back and forth from mouth to mouth, from him to me, from his mouth to mine, and back again to his mouth.
He followed along softly as I began to say something obscene.
“Call me by your name.
“I will call you by my name.” It was the first time I had ever done that.
The moment I called him by my name, I entered a realm I had never shared with anyone before, or perhaps ever since.
--- pp.172-173

“You two shared a beautiful friendship.
It might be more than friendship.
I envy you guys.
From my perspective, most parents would just wish it never happened and that their son would quickly return to his place.
But I'm not that kind of parent.
From your perspective, if there is pain, soothe it, if there is a flame, don't put it out, and don't be cruel to it.
It's horrible to be so lost in yourself that you can't sleep at night.
It's the same when others forget me too soon.
Because they go against nature and tear out so much of themselves to heal quickly, they end up feeling empty before they even turn thirty, and when they meet someone new and start over, they have little to give.
“You shouldn’t feel anything, so trying not to feel anything is a waste of time!”
--- pp.283-284

Publisher's Review
Winner of the 20th Lambda Literary Award Gay Fiction Category
The remastered edition of "That Year, Summer Guest," which painted the hearts of 100,000 domestic readers in pink after its publication in 2017.

With the publication of the sequel, Find Me
Romantic sentences that are more carefully refined and
Wearing a beautiful cover that captures the pure passion of first love

Back to the original title, "Call Me By Your Name"!

"Call Me by Your Name" begins with a grown Elio recalling the summer he met Oliver.
It depicts the special intimacy they develop over six weeks on the Riviera and special days in Rome, a story that is both intellectual and erotic, depicting the process of building a special intimacy while holding a secret they cannot tell anyone and cannot be together forever.
Elio, who has reached a point where he cannot shake off his desire for Oliver, who has not fully opened his heart, repeats his thoughts in a voice hotter than the Mediterranean summer air, exquisitely blending with the story's development of excitement and jealousy, drawing one into the work.

The light of my eyes, the light of my eyes, you are the light of the world, the light of my life.
I didn't know what the phrase "the light in my eyes" meant and wondered where it came from, but even that ridiculous expression brought tears to my eyes.
---111p

betrayer.
I thought as I waited for the sound of his door opening and closing.
betrayer.
How easily we forget.
I'm not going anywhere.
Of course so.
liar.

I didn't know at the time that I was a traitor.
There was a girl waiting for me tonight at a house near the beach.
She waits for me every night now, and I, like Oliver, don't think about her at all.
---125p

The love scenes, expressed emotionally and sophisticatedly through Elio's voice, convey raw, inner emotions that are more provocative than sexually explicit descriptions of the body.
In particular, through the most famous line, which is also the title of the work, the author sensually expresses the philosophy that two people can become complete one only when they go beyond the relationship between bodies and share the spiritual realm that they have never shared with anyone else. Instead of expressing true love as physical attraction and relationship, he shows it as a perfect communication between people.

“Call me by your name.
“I will call you by my name.”
---173p

Call Me by Your Name is a sophisticated and dignified expression of the two people's world of consciousness and their desire to become one with each other, crossing over Bach, Haydn, Liszt, Heraclitus, Paul Celan, Percy Shelley, and Leopardi.
In republishing this remastered edition, we have faithfully captured the original text's emotions from the first sentence to the last by comparing it with the entire original text, and we have beautifully expressed the mysterious emotions of first love and improved readability with a new cover and text design.
While reading the book, the passionate and pure breathing of the two lovers, Elio and Oliver, will warm your heart.

“A great love story.
“Every line, every pain, every tumultuous emotion in this beautiful novel truly resonates within me.”
-Michael Upchurch, [Seattle Times]

“A novel that embodies the author’s desires in delicate and well-polished sentences.”
-[The New Yorker]

“A truly outstanding novel.
“The purity of beauty and passion expressed by André Aciman elevates this extraordinary novel to the ranks of the greatest romantic novels.”
-Charles Kaiser, [Washington Post]

“This brilliant novel is rich and sensuous.
André Aciman has captured the burgeoning relationship between these two characters with exquisite skill.”
—Karen Campbell, [Boston Globe]

“This book is incredibly great.
His wife, Elizabeth Chambers, calls it the sexiest book she's ever read.
“It humanizes love in a really powerful and beautiful way.”
-Armie Hammer, Time Out (London)

“I loved the movie… and this book completely captivated me.”
-Marc Jacobs

“I read André Aciman’s profound and moving novel [Call Me by Your Name] before seeing Luca Guadagnino’s film, with James Ivory’s delicate screenplay, and I loved it.”
-Hamish Bowles, [Vogue] Best Book of the Year

“This novel is a passionate… love letter, a prayer, a piece of epitaph.
“A particularly beautiful book.”
—Stacy Derasmo, [The New York Times Book Review]

"best.
“The beauty of Aciman’s style and the purity of his passion make this extraordinary first novel a worthy addition to everyone’s repertoire of great romantic love stories.”
-Charles Kaiser, [Washington Post-Book World]

[New York Times] Bestseller
[USA Today] Bestseller
[Los Angeles Times] Bestseller
[Vulture Book Club] Recommended Books
[Washington Post] Best Books of the Year
[Chicago Tribune] Book of the Year
[Seattle Times] Book of the Year
[New York Times] Notable Books of the Year
[San Francisco Chronicle] Notable Books of the Year
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Publication date: December 16, 2019
- Page count, weight, size: 316 pages | 356g | 130*195*20mm
- ISBN13: 9791190234016
- ISBN10: 1190234017

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