Find Me: A Novel

André Aciman

Oct 2019 · Sold by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

About this ebook

A New York Times Bestseller

In this spellbinding exploration of the varieties of love, the author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name revisits its complex and beguiling characters decades after their first meeting.

No novel in recent memory has spoken more movingly to contemporary readers about the nature of love than André Aciman’s haunting Call Me by Your Name. First published in 2007, it was hailed as “a love letter, an invocation . . . an exceptionally beautiful book” (Stacey D’Erasmo, The New York Times Book Review). Nearly three quarters of a million copies have been sold, and the book became a much-loved, Academy Award–winning film starring Timothée Chalamet as the young Elio and Armie Hammer as Oliver, the graduate student with whom he falls in love.

In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio’s father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, who has become a gifted classical pianist. A chance encounter on the train with a beautiful young woman upends Sami’s plans and changes his life forever.

Elio soon moves to Paris, where he, too, has a consequential affair, while Oliver, now a New England college professor with a family, suddenly finds himself contemplating a return trip across the Atlantic.

Aciman is a master of sensibility, of the intimate details and the emotional nuances that are the substance of passion. Find Me brings us back inside the magic circle of one of our greatest contemporary romances to ask if, in fact, true love ever dies.

Ratings and reviews

Disappointed. It was very boring once it got into the classical music technicalities, which did not add anything to create interest in the storylines (fillers). The weird relationship of Miranda & Samuel was the longest story (half of the book) and was questionable, in terms of the believability of the two characters having a relationship with a big age gap. This book is about Elio's father relationship with Miranda. I can see how fans of Elio and Oliver would be disappointed. Oliver and Elio follow up is a very short storyline which came at end (10 pages approx) , yet it was the most anticipated storyline. After reaching almost the end of the book, why bother throwing it in there! If the author meant to keep readers in suspense, I believe he failed. It is NOT a continuation of CMBYN. It's going to be a hit and miss with folks, and it's not a book I would recommend, if you were hoping for part two of Elio and Oliver story.

I have finished reading the free sample of the book and honestly it was great. I love it. And I'm gonna continue reading the book until the last page. Mr. André Aciman really did a great job.

It's fine. I kept reading on hoping it would evolve into something more than that, but it never satiated my desire. All in all, it's a supremely adequate story.

About the author

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