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Call Me by Your Name
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Armie Hammer
- Series: Call Me By Your Name, Book 1
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: LGBTQ2S+, Literature & Fiction
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Publisher's Summary
*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:
"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)
What the critics say
"...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)
"...Armie Hammer (who plays Oliver in the movie) steps effortlessly into Elio's interior world. The result is staggering." (BookRiot)
Editorial Review
Plunge headfirst into this enthralling story of love, intimacy, and above all, passion. Call Me By Your Name is a true coming of age tour de force that will have you riveted from the opening lines until the very end. Elio is 17, living in Italy, and trying to find his footing in the world. Then, Oliver, a 24-year-old graduate student, comes to board at his parents’ home for the summer. Before long, the two young men are caught in a tangle of tension, cautious flirtation, friendship, and intimacy. As the summer progresses, Elio and Oliver weave a complicated dance of passion and tenderness that is both beautiful and doomed. At once a coming of age story and a tale of romance, Call Me By Your Name is touching, tragic, and truly magical. Author Andre Aciman sets the tone and mood of the story beautifully. His rich descriptions, delicate nuances, and believable characters will leave a lasting impression on listeners. The audiobook is narrated by Armie Hammer, who has a strong connection to the work, having played Oliver in the 2017 major motion picture adaptation. He steps easily into the narrative role of Elio, bringing the same depth and passion to the reading as he did to his on-screen portrayal of Oliver. Hammer has a lithe and melodic tone that is enchanting and engrossing. His emotive voice expertly captures the feel of the story and pulls the listener in. His performance of this superbly written and deeply moving story is a true must-listen experience. Both critically acclaimed and vastly popular worldwide, Call Me By Your Name is a tale of fleeting love that you will find difficult to pause and impossible to forget.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2018-05-12
absolutely amazing
I started reading the book immediately after I saw the movie. when I finished the book, I downloaded the audio book... absolutely in love with Armie Hammer narrating this book.
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- Grace
- 2021-01-06
Armie Hammer’s voice 🥰😍😜
After watching the movie, I just knew I needed to read the book so I went to Amazon and saw I could listen to it for freee. Honestly this book was amazing and the fact that Armie Hammer narrated it was even better. Usually I’m not a fan of reading books after watching the film adaptation but this one is definitely worth it.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2022-04-30
art imitates life imitates art
Here is the incredible story of a true love, one that begins with all the angst of youth, that wounds you with it's bittersweet denial, that can't refuse itself despite the practical inner voice... the pain and the ecstasy. This book will tear your heart open, and leave you smiling through the tears, as it beats in the sunshine.
Armie Hammer delivers an exquisite performance, one even more poingant when considering this novel is in the voice of Elio, while in the film adaptation Hammer plays Oliver; speaking not only Elio's name, but his very soul.
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- Tat Sky
- 2022-04-05
Just beautiful!
Everything in this book is simply beautiful! Well narrated. Needed to understand the movie to the full extent.
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- Emi Hard
- 2022-02-01
absolutely beautiful
I cannot get enough of this story, this writing... I highly recommend this book and the movie. absolute masterpieces.
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- Anonymous User
- 2021-11-12
This explained a lot more than the movie did!!
A few parts in the movie I was confused and wondering how they would go from one point to another. The book goes into detail about everything that we missed! I love that it was read by armie hammer, it gave more of a personality. Like Oliver himself was reading it. I loved it so much I will definitely be listening again, can’t wait to listen to find me:))
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- Dean
- 2021-11-06
Captivating story of two young lovers
I was hooked after the first few pages of the book. A story of a young man's struggle with understanding his true self and the impact that a visiting scholar has on the rest of his life.
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- Tianyi Guo
- 2021-10-10
I am stunned
this is the best book I've read, I love every details about it. I will reread it for as much as I want, and I want it pretty bad.
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- Louis S Maurati
- 2021-08-14
Loved it
The story starts off slow seemingly like a monologue but it quickly becomes more plot driven. The fantastic narration accompanied by the exquisite articulated protagonist and tender intimacy of the characters will leave you wanting more.
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- Alison Lutz
- 2021-03-30
Beautiful!
Aciman's words are beautiful and perfectly capture yearning, and nostalgia, and passion. Armie Hammer does an incredible job of reading the book and I really wish every audio book was read by him!
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- D.K.
- 2017-11-20
Stunning and deep dive into infatuation
This story has Virginia Woolf's stream of consciousness and Walt Whitman's sensuality combined in what is probably the most beautiful book I've read this year.
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- Michael S.
- 2017-11-10
Absolutely spectacular!
My goodness. A simple story beautifully told. I found myself often rewinding to the start of a chapter or passage to hear Armie Hammer read André Aciman’s glorious writing once again so I could savor the words and phrasing. I really didn’t want it to end.
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- Nico L.
- 2017-10-07
Amazing.
I am blown away by this book and the performance. Everything was absolutely gorgeous. I am now an emotional wreck. I will never recover from this. I am amazed
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- Maggie Pahndeepah
- 2017-10-07
Crying in public
That’s what the ending of this book had me doing. Crying in the middle of a restaurant, and immediately on the last words as read by Armie Hammer, rewinding to hear the last few minutes all over again. Then I wrote a love poem to my husband. Great book! Great performance.
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- Ella girl
- 2019-10-10
sooooo boring
I only got it because of the great reviews, and I've had such a hard time staying with it. I had to rewind the first 30 minutes over 10x. it honestly even got me in a bad mood how slow this book is. the first 30 minutes are ridiculous like get to the point already!!! it almost put me to sleep several times. after about 3 hours I officially give up and only wish I can take my credit back! and it has nothing to do with the gay guys. I'm gay myself but jesus this book is horrible! the amount of good reviews is very surprising!!!
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- dnd
- 2017-10-10
Profound sensuality~
An absolutely beautiful, daring and complex novel! Aciman's economy of style is at once direct and poetic. He handles a controversial subject with such sensitivity, frankness and unabashed romanticism that swoons at every turn. Armie Hammer's rich baritone, and elegant reading is superb. I will return to this again and again.
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- Kindle Customer
- 2019-11-26
Seriously disappointed
I'm a gay man who saw, and enjoyed, the movie. When I saw there was a sequel: "Find Me", I decided to listen to the book, then moving on to "Find Me". But that's not going to happen!
The book is very well written with creative, enjoyable prose that creates great images but the story is a cloyingly romantic fantasy containing mostly two-dimensional characters who mindfuck themselves silly, OMG get over yourselves?
The story just doesn't hold up, it's so melodramatic, in a silent movie kind of way and gets worse the farther you get to the end.
It doesn't help that the characters are not very likable in the book, and I can't even imagine such over the top romance between two men, and one that lasts a lifetime. Men are not by nature romantic, certainly not to the degree these two were.
I was struck by the gratuitous hetero side story: our teenage romantic bedding local girls and the manfriend redeeming himself by promptly redeeming a marrying a siring a brood if kids, leaving all this behind, or not; I couldn't quite figure out was up when they met 20 years later; where they still in love, were they ever in love? Who knows.
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- Manolo
- 2019-11-25
I really wanted to like this book!
I heard such good things about the movie, that I wanted to read the book for myself. When I started listening, I found that the main protagonist, Elio was miserable and unlikable. Compound that with the book being a definite "slow burn", it made it hard to finish. Throughout the story Elio was consistently passive aggressive, selfish, manipulative, jealous, and creepy. He mopes around for the majority of the book and comes across as very pretentious. Which made his lengthy inner thoughts hard to tolerate. He was honestly the worst. The narration was very good, but unfortunately I did not enjoy the story at all
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- Wojciech Dwornik
- 2017-10-13
Head over heels fell in love with this book!
You’ll loose yourself to the nostalgia of your own first love as you listen to Armie Hammer narrate this fantastic and so often poetic book.
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- Chad
- 2017-10-06
Equal parts beautiful and heartbreaking
This story is both beautiful and heartbreaking. “Call Me By Your Name” is one of the most incredible novels to have ever written. This love story about Elio and Oliver will touch your heart and then break it into a million pieces. This is one of those novels and stories that will stay with you for the rest of your life. “Call Me By Your Name” is not only a brilliant masterpiece of LGBT literature, but it is also one of the greatest romance and coming of age stories to ever be written.
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- Kapétanovic
- 2018-03-01
A touch of summer
It’s beautiful how Armie Hammer’s voice as it reads these beautiful words can make time flies and bring you to Italy, to sunlight, into the sort of evocative transe only beautiful stories can conjure up. I have read this book but to hear it is something else. I understood it better, it touched me, all its subtleties laid bare in sounds for my ear to find. It was so, so beautiful!
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- Romain Autret
- 2018-02-23
Unique and beautiful novel
This story teared me apart. It was so relatebale and so far from what I ever experienced at the same time. The narration by Amir Hammer is delightful and help to get fully into this feeling storm.
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- Anonymous User
- 2018-01-22
Truly beautiful
Such a beautiful story that is somehow made even better by Armie Hammer's rythmic reading.
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- Anonymous User
- 2021-08-27
Superb and heartbreaking
Everything was perfect. So moving, so brilliant, poetic and vivid... it was exactly what I expected from this book and from Hammer's voice. Stunning.
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- Ines
- 2021-02-14
Rip my heart out, why don't you?
Reviewing books is always tricky because I always ask myself "where do I begin" and "how do I translate my emotions into words after so many words anyway?" I'm ashamed it took me so long to start "Call Me By Your Name" and now that I've finished it I want to listen to it again immediatly. On the other hand, I'm really not sure my heart could handle being shattered by all of the gorgeous evocative sentences one more time. I don't think the story needs much introducing by now, so all I'll say is that this is one of the most beautiful books I've read in my entire life. Armie Hammer's voice couldn't have been more magnetic if it could, and he served André Aciman's poetic prose beautifully. "You'll kill me if you stop." Don't stop. Or do. Yup, that's exactly it.
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- Forestier Mathieu
- 2020-12-27
Livre très émouvant portée par la voix de lecteur
une histoire pleine d'émotion et qui retranscrit parfaitement la confusion des émotions et la force des pulsions sexuelles à l'adolescence. Une histoire sans tabou et très touchante. Un voyage dans l'Italie de l'été, des odeurs et des saveurs.
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- Anne Hagen
- 2019-02-05
Just a wonderful time
I read the book last summer and I already fell in love with it. But listening to Armie Hammer's voice is like a sweet dream. He gives so much emotions to the story, that you could spend the day listening to him. It is superb.
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- Pierre Gauthier
- 2019-01-20
A Very Relevant Complement to the Movie
Though certainly not earth-shattering, this novel is incomparably superior to the movie made in 2017.
This, for many reasons:
- the novel is entirely narrated from Elio’s point of view, what provides coherence to the plot while maintaining mystery around Oliver;
- the epilogue is much more detailed, and the very essence of the conclusion is different from the movie’s, the novel ending with the work’s title and giving it true meaning;
- what Elio describes as the « best night in his life » in the novel is completely absent from the movie!
- there is no mumble-jumble of languages in the written work and although the novel was written in English, everyone is understood to be habitually speaking Italian.
Given the author’s biography and the fact he identifies the novel’s location only with the initial B, it can be interpreted as autobiographical. No doubt, with embellishments were made as many details appear highly unrealistic.
Those who have seen the movie will benefit greatly from the novel. Those who have not may abstain without great loss.
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- Nguyen
- 2018-10-12
Now one of my favourites novels
Aciman plays with words so naturally it is a pleasure to read him. And listening to Hammer's voice is like drinking a good warm chai tea latte.