Aciman, Andr?

Seventeen-year-old Elio, son of a teaching professor in Italy meets a young American scholar, Oliver, and is immediately attracted to him. Their relationship develops into a hidden passionate affair for the summer, and years later when they reunite they remember their intense feelings for each other.

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. Each is unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, when, during the restless summer weeks, unrelenting currents of obsession, fascination, and desire intensify their passion and test the charged ground between them. Recklessly, the two verge toward the one thing both fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy.

Contains five essays in which the authors meditate upon themes of exile, home, and memory.

Seventeen-year-old Elio, anticipating a boring summer at his parents' home on the Italian coast, finds himself powerfully attracted to Oliver, a handsome young American who has come to assist Elio's father for the summer, and the two young men soon fall into a romantic and sexual relationship that influences the course of their lives.