- LGBT, Italy, Summer, Love
It's the summer of 1983, and precocious 17-year-old Elio Perlman is spending the days with his family at their 17th-century villa in Lombardy, Italy. He soon meets Oliver, a handsome doctoral student who's working as an intern for Elio's father. Amid the sun-drenched splendor of their surroundings, Elio and Oliver discover the heady beauty of awakening desire over the course of a summer that will alter their lives forever.
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Earnest, intimate, grave and contemplative.
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- André Aciman
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books, Zemorah-Bitan, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- heb, Portuguese, English, Chinese
- ISBN
- 9781786499998
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