Call Me by Your Name: A Novel

André Aciman

Oct 2017 · Macmillan Audio · Narrated by Armie Hammer

About this audiobook

"...Hammer's voice is brimming with such melody that, if you listen to it long enough, you can probably get drunk off it." — Vulture.com

*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 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.

More praise for Call Me By Your Name:

"...Armie Hammer (who plays Oliver in the movie) steps effortlessly into Elio's interior world. The result is staggering." — BookRiot

"a must-listen for anyone familiar with the book or film." — Buzzfeed

"Hammer’s soft, velvety voice lends itself perfectly to the story and its Italian setting. While you might think this one isn’t worth a listen if you’ve already seen the movie or read the book, many reviewers say it is still worth taking in even if you know the story – some even say it’s worth listening to more than once." — AskMen

Ratings and reviews

As naive as I was at the time thinking that I had gained understanding of how people lived their lives simply because I experienced contrasting cultures during my upbringing. The book taught me more than I had known, expanded my depth of knowledge, and grasp of comprehension, on love. The buring passion that is tender, exposed, and intertwined with complex emotions instigating much more nuanced than what I had previously recollected. A read worth reading again and again, and a few more times after that. Yet, each time reading through the passages felt like savoring a dish that I've tasted for the first time. Each time met with explosion of flavours and brand new findings. If only I can experience something so simply grand. Perhaps it transcends worthiness of love, or sheer dumb luck. It exists and can only be ignited by continuously living, day by day, will I find out if I have encountered a fraction of what was portrayed. Something shamelessly unforgettable, seared into my memories.

Beautifully written, I can feel a heartache everytime I'm listening to it, Armie's voice is so soothing, a great choice, I don't know if I can listen to it again though just like I can't bring myself to watch the movie again. I'm was actually listening to the audio at work, tried very hard to put myself together 😭

I had started off by watching the movie, and then I tried to read the book. Personally I found the book difficult to read unless I was in that certain "mood". I tried the audiobook and it made all the difference. As a teenager I would listen to it on the bus, while I was cleaning. Armie's voice was so captivating you just wanted to sit there forever and listen to it.

About the author

André Aciman is the New York Times bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name, Out of Egypt, Eight White Nights, False Papers, Alibis, Harvard Square, Enigma Variations, and Find Me. He's the editor of The Proust Project and teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He lives with his wife in Manhattan.