“So which vigil shall we start with today?” asked Miranda, “or will it be a surprise?” Earlier that day I had explained to her that vigils were ritualized visits: in Elio’s and my case, Via Vittoria, Via Belsiana, Via del Babuino. Then she added: “Had you been waiting for him at Termini yesterday I wouldn’t be standing here telling you this.” “He exaggerates, there’s so little to tell.” As we walked out of the pebbled courtyard, Elio gave me a discreetly quizzical look that meant, Who is she? She intercepted the questioning glance, and said right away: “I’m the person he slept with after picking me up on the train yesterday.” He laughed, though slightly uncomfortably. “I’ve heard so much about you,” she said, “all he does is talk about you.” He laughed. Miranda right away extended her arm and they shook hands.

We hugged, then after I released him he noticed that the person standing next to me was not a stranger who happened to be stepping out of the hotel at the same time as I was. Are Elio and Oliver destined to continue their love story? Below, The Hollywood Reporter shares an excerpt.Įlio was standing by the entrance of the hotel. The tale takes readers through Rome, Paris and New York as the characters’ lives continue to intertwine in way they never expected it to. Then readers meet Oliver, who has returned to America, married a woman and started a family. In the second part of the book, readers are reintroduced to Elio, who begins a new relationship of his own.

Samuel, Elio’s father, embarks on an unexpected journey with Miranda, a woman he spontaneously meets aboard a train. In his follow-up Find Me, his fifth novel overall, Aciman revisits the beloved characters of Elio and Oliver, following them a decade after their summer love affair, when Elio is now a pianist, whereas Oliver is a professor. The film went on to earn five Oscar nominations and boosted Aciman’s book to the top of The New York Times’ best-sellers list. It’s been 12 years since André Aciman published his acclaimed novel Call Me by Your Name, centered on a love story that came to life in Luca Guadagnino’s adaptation of the same name starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet.

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