Description

THE BELOVED COMING-OF-AGE CLASSIC, NOW A WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER

During a restless summer on the Italian Riviera, a powerful romance blooms between seventeen-year-old Elio and his father’s house guest, Oliver. Unrelenting currents of obsession and fear, fascination and desire threaten to overwhelm the lovers who at first feign indifference to the charge between them.

What grows from the depths of their souls is a romance of scarcely six weeks’ duration, and an experience that marks them for a lifetime. For what the two discover on the Riviera and during a sultry evening in Rome is the one thing they both already fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy.

Rediscover one of the great love stories of our time.

Publisher Review

This novel is hot... a love letter, an invocation, and something of an epitaph. An exceptionally beautiful book. * The New York Times Book Review * Deeply moving... I adored it. * Vogue * Humanises love in a really powerful, beautiful way. * Armie Hammer, Time Out * Extraordinary... Evocative, poetic and deeply beautiful. * Tatler * Brave, acute, elated, naked, brutal, tender, humane and beautiful. * Nicole Krauss, author of Forest Dark * As much a story of paradise found as it is of paradise lost... Extraordinary. * New York Times * A beautiful and wise book... A miracle. * Colm Toibin, author of Brooklyn *