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This contemporary twist on Brief Encounter is a tender meditation on what might have been. 'Maybe we love people because they won't let us know them.'A summer's evening in Manhattan. Nothing - not cold drinks, not showers not a stroll through the chilly aisles of an all-night drugstore - can undo the heat's hold on the city.

Julian is half watching the evening news, his husband filling the dishwasher. That's when it arrives. An email with the subject line: 'From Paul Axel'.

An email about a dead man from Carol - a woman Julian...

Now a Major Motion Picture from Director Luca Guadagnino, Starring Armie Hammer and Timothee Chalamet, and produced by the Academy Award-Winning Producer of A Room with a View

Andre Aciman's Call Me by Your Name 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. 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...

Elio lebt als Pianist in Rom. Seit der Trennung von seiner großen Jugendliebe Oliver ist er keine längere und ernsthafte Beziehung eingegangen. Oliver hingegen hat in New York geheiratet, ein bürgerliches Leben als Collegeprofessor begonnen, eine Familie gegründet. Doch insgeheim ist er über die Beziehung mit Elio nicht hinweggekommen. In seinem neuen Roman erweist sich André Aciman erneut als Meister des sinnlichen Erzählens. Die Suche nach dem einen Menschen im Leben, den man wahrhaftig liebt, kann lange dauern - doch sie ist nie vergebens.

This richly colored memoir chronicles the exploits of a flamboyant Jewish family, from its bold arrival in cosmopolitan Alexandria to its defeated exodus three generations later. In elegant and witty prose, Andre Aciman introduces us to the marvelous eccentrics who shaped his life--Uncle Vili, the strutting daredevil, soldier, salesman, and spy; the two grandmothers, the Princess and the Saint, who gossip in six languages; Aunt Flora, the German refugee who warns that Jews lose everything "at least twice in their lives." And through it all, we come to know a boy who, even as he longs for a...