--- product_id: 100410035 title: "Call Me by Your Name: A Novel" price: "¥6492" currency: JPY in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.jp/products/100410035-call-me-by-your-name-a-novel store_origin: JP region: Japan --- # Set in idyllic Italian Riviera Oscar-winning film adaptation Bestselling literary classic Call Me by Your Name: A Novel **Price:** ¥6492 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 📖 Unlock the summer romance that redefined a generation’s heart and soul. ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Call Me by Your Name: A Novel - **How much does it cost?** ¥6492 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.jp](https://www.desertcart.jp/products/100410035-call-me-by-your-name-a-novel) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Award-Winning Acclaim:** Winner of the Lambda Literary Award and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. - • **Oscar-Winning Adaptation:** Dive into the novel behind the acclaimed film by Luca Guadagnino, starring Timothée Chalamet. - • **A Modern Literary Masterpiece:** Experience the poetic intensity of one of the greatest love stories of our time. - • **Timeless Exploration of Desire:** A deeply moving narrative of first love, intimacy, and the bittersweet ache of memory. - • **Immersive Mediterranean Setting:** Transport yourself to a sun-drenched Italian summer filled with passion and longing. ## Overview Call Me by Your Name is a bestselling, critically acclaimed novel by André Aciman, celebrated for its poetic exploration of a transformative summer romance on the Italian Riviera. The story inspired an Oscar-winning film and has earned multiple literary awards, making it a must-read for lovers of profound, intimate storytelling. ## Description Now a Major Motion Picture from Director Luca Guadagnino, Starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet, and Written by Three-Time Oscar™ Nominee James Ivory The Basis of the Oscar-Winning Best Adapted Screenplay A New York Times Bestseller A USA Today Bestseller A Los Angeles Times Bestseller A Vulture Book Club Pick An Instant Classic and One of the Great Love Stories of Our Time 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 the charged ground between them. Recklessly, the two verge toward the one thing both fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy. It is an instant classic and one of the great love stories of our time. Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Fiction A New York Times Notable Book of the Year • A Publishers Weekly and The Washington Post Best Book of the Year • A New York Magazine "Future Canon" Selection • A Chicago Tribune and Seattle Times (Michael Upchurch''s) Favorite Favorite Book of the Year Review: cor cordium...heart of hearts - This book broke my heart! I feel it's important to say that before anything else, because I don't want to give you the wrong impression; that this is some kind of fluffy tale of a forbidden holiday romance. That would cheapen it, and despite the occasional sex scenes which might put off a few sensitive readers, this is a story not cheap in any way, shape or form. Call Me By Your Name is, quite simply, one of the most beautiful things I have ever read (probably the most beautiful, second only to Lolita). It is the story of a passionate, intimate and eternal - yet doomed - love between a boy named Elio and his father's house guest, Oliver, and the incredible connection that grows between them over the summer, and culminates in a tragically all-too-brief stay in Rome. The boys grow into men but their friendship, and complete and total yearning for each other, continues to draw them together even as life draws them apart... I'll confess it took me a while to get into this story; lack of dialogue tagging made it hard for me to know who was speaking, and Elio's narrative voice sometimes gets carried away on boring tangents - he's a little too high-brow to be believeable as a 17 year old. But at the same time the innocent, desperate boy's prose, imagery, and obsessive fantasies about the carefree Oliver (which he gradually comes to realise are not as pathetically one-sided as he thought!) are mesmeric, and only a few chapters in I found myself hypnotised by the sights, sounds and smells of the mediterranean, as if I'd been sucked right into Elio and Oliver's beautiful world. As I say, there is a lot of infuriating back and forth, lazy days and 'will they won't they' going on in the beginning, but don't let it put you off, because it's all an effective, agonising build up to when they finally do get together. However...like Cathy and Heathcliff of Wuthering Heights, the characters in this book suffer from major 'bang their heads together' syndrome. It's infuriating, and I often wanted to scream 'WHY? WHY DON'T YOU JUST BE TOGETHER???!!! ARGH!!' Honestly, it's incredible how much effect this book had on me. The image of Elio and Oliver's kiss in Rome will be forever burned into my imagination as though I was right there with them, and one bit of the book right near the end when Elio is wishing that he could tell Oliver something and just can't...wow, that bit made me put down the book for a moment and just burst into tears. I literally could not stop sobbing for about five minutes - I cannot remember the last time any book made me cry that hard!! (Apart from when Dobby died in Harry Potter, but that's a story for another day...) Call Me By Your Name is both a celebration and a eulogy, and even though it leaves you with a bittersweet ache inside, it also leaves you with the memories of one of the most enduring love stories ever written. Beautiful and heartrending, this is utter class and will stay with me until my dying day. I hope that, one long hot summer in the distant future, I might be brave enough to grab some tissues, curl up, and let Elio and Oliver take me back to Monet's Berm with them. Review: The defining summer of his life - This is one of the great love stories. It evokes the longings, the sublimities, the pangs of first love with a poetic transcendence that only the finest writers can achieve. You usually have to go back to the classics, to Goethe and Turgenev, to find such delicate angst, such aching tenderness, to experience such an intense sense of intimacy and loss. There have been many coming of age stories, particularly those that feature the transformative experience of first gay love, some very good, but I cannot recall any as good as this one. It's a literary novel, scrupulous, poetic and analytic in its sensuous handling of language; it gets under the skins of its two main characters, to explore the multiplicity of meanings found in gestures, expressions, conversations, incidents, feelings. It is Proustian: the author, analysing through the eyes of a narrator looking back at his youthful self from the vantage of years and wisdom - just as Marcel did in Proust's great novel - immerses himself once more in the myriad signs of desire, love and loss. Elio, seventeen, a gifted musician, highly intelligent and literate, exceptional in many ways, meets at his parent's Italian coastal villa, Oliver, a handsome twenty-four year old, a student of his father; he is working on a book about Herodotus. Oliver has come to stay for the summer: the weather is perfect, the villa and its surroundings idyllic, the household full of civilised, liberal minded people and servants: this is the ideal setting for a summer romance, and Aciman evokes it with the skill of a subtle painter. At first, as Elio desires Oliver, trying to hide it, even from himself, but giving himself away in so many awkward ways, it is a novel of unrequited love, and everyone who has ever felt unspoken desire of this intensity knows what contortions the soul has to go through, balanced between lust and denial. At first Oliver is ambiguous in his response to the boy; he leads a life off-stage that adds to his allure, his mystery, his apparent unattainabilty, but there are signs that he's interested, signs that are highly erotic. And then the breakthrough, the souls bared, the physical intimacy, the other-worldly happiness, the sense of two ardent, exceptional beings mingling... (one has to use this language to try and indicate the profundity of this love). In the final section, which happens largely in Rome, we move from the realm of consummated love to the sharper realities of the outside world where a sense of loss, of breaking apart, gathers in a city full of pleasures and temptations. A coda gives us those poignant, fleeting, regretful moments of this love's afterlife, when the men meet a few times years later. During one of these meetings, Oliver, now a middle-aged married man with sons, declares that Elio was his 'heart of hearts'. It underlines the understated tragedy of a love lost, one which remains inexplicable, that seems like a violation of the essential rules of love. The emotion at the end is almost too much to bear, at least for this reader. Love stories seldom come as good as this. It's amazing that it's a first novel, the handling of theme and language so mature, so intelligent, so moving. As I write in 2017, ten years after it was published, a film has been released of the book. I am wondering how a film maker can turn such Proustian prose, such a delicate analysis of the heart's movements, into visuals without losing the essential texture of the story, the sense of a man looking back with such refined emotion at the defining summer of his life. I wonder if it will be able to catch the exceptional nature of this love between men, not through the introspective meditations of a literary text but through visuals, where everything has to be inferred. ## Features - Picador usa - Binding: paperback - Language: english ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | 453,471 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 1,389 in Literary Fiction (Books) 2,650 in Contemporary Fiction (Books) 9,153 in Contemporary Romance (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 43,625 Reviews | ## Images ![Call Me by Your Name: A Novel - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81b8bgvoIJL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ cor cordium...heart of hearts *by T***S on 10 November 2010* This book broke my heart! I feel it's important to say that before anything else, because I don't want to give you the wrong impression; that this is some kind of fluffy tale of a forbidden holiday romance. That would cheapen it, and despite the occasional sex scenes which might put off a few sensitive readers, this is a story not cheap in any way, shape or form. Call Me By Your Name is, quite simply, one of the most beautiful things I have ever read (probably the most beautiful, second only to Lolita). It is the story of a passionate, intimate and eternal - yet doomed - love between a boy named Elio and his father's house guest, Oliver, and the incredible connection that grows between them over the summer, and culminates in a tragically all-too-brief stay in Rome. The boys grow into men but their friendship, and complete and total yearning for each other, continues to draw them together even as life draws them apart... I'll confess it took me a while to get into this story; lack of dialogue tagging made it hard for me to know who was speaking, and Elio's narrative voice sometimes gets carried away on boring tangents - he's a little too high-brow to be believeable as a 17 year old. But at the same time the innocent, desperate boy's prose, imagery, and obsessive fantasies about the carefree Oliver (which he gradually comes to realise are not as pathetically one-sided as he thought!) are mesmeric, and only a few chapters in I found myself hypnotised by the sights, sounds and smells of the mediterranean, as if I'd been sucked right into Elio and Oliver's beautiful world. As I say, there is a lot of infuriating back and forth, lazy days and 'will they won't they' going on in the beginning, but don't let it put you off, because it's all an effective, agonising build up to when they finally do get together. However...like Cathy and Heathcliff of Wuthering Heights, the characters in this book suffer from major 'bang their heads together' syndrome. It's infuriating, and I often wanted to scream 'WHY? WHY DON'T YOU JUST BE TOGETHER???!!! ARGH!!' Honestly, it's incredible how much effect this book had on me. The image of Elio and Oliver's kiss in Rome will be forever burned into my imagination as though I was right there with them, and one bit of the book right near the end when Elio is wishing that he could tell Oliver something and just can't...wow, that bit made me put down the book for a moment and just burst into tears. I literally could not stop sobbing for about five minutes - I cannot remember the last time any book made me cry that hard!! (Apart from when Dobby died in Harry Potter, but that's a story for another day...) Call Me By Your Name is both a celebration and a eulogy, and even though it leaves you with a bittersweet ache inside, it also leaves you with the memories of one of the most enduring love stories ever written. Beautiful and heartrending, this is utter class and will stay with me until my dying day. I hope that, one long hot summer in the distant future, I might be brave enough to grab some tissues, curl up, and let Elio and Oliver take me back to Monet's Berm with them. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The defining summer of his life *by R***N on 15 March 2017* This is one of the great love stories. It evokes the longings, the sublimities, the pangs of first love with a poetic transcendence that only the finest writers can achieve. You usually have to go back to the classics, to Goethe and Turgenev, to find such delicate angst, such aching tenderness, to experience such an intense sense of intimacy and loss. There have been many coming of age stories, particularly those that feature the transformative experience of first gay love, some very good, but I cannot recall any as good as this one. It's a literary novel, scrupulous, poetic and analytic in its sensuous handling of language; it gets under the skins of its two main characters, to explore the multiplicity of meanings found in gestures, expressions, conversations, incidents, feelings. It is Proustian: the author, analysing through the eyes of a narrator looking back at his youthful self from the vantage of years and wisdom - just as Marcel did in Proust's great novel - immerses himself once more in the myriad signs of desire, love and loss. Elio, seventeen, a gifted musician, highly intelligent and literate, exceptional in many ways, meets at his parent's Italian coastal villa, Oliver, a handsome twenty-four year old, a student of his father; he is working on a book about Herodotus. Oliver has come to stay for the summer: the weather is perfect, the villa and its surroundings idyllic, the household full of civilised, liberal minded people and servants: this is the ideal setting for a summer romance, and Aciman evokes it with the skill of a subtle painter. At first, as Elio desires Oliver, trying to hide it, even from himself, but giving himself away in so many awkward ways, it is a novel of unrequited love, and everyone who has ever felt unspoken desire of this intensity knows what contortions the soul has to go through, balanced between lust and denial. At first Oliver is ambiguous in his response to the boy; he leads a life off-stage that adds to his allure, his mystery, his apparent unattainabilty, but there are signs that he's interested, signs that are highly erotic. And then the breakthrough, the souls bared, the physical intimacy, the other-worldly happiness, the sense of two ardent, exceptional beings mingling... (one has to use this language to try and indicate the profundity of this love). In the final section, which happens largely in Rome, we move from the realm of consummated love to the sharper realities of the outside world where a sense of loss, of breaking apart, gathers in a city full of pleasures and temptations. A coda gives us those poignant, fleeting, regretful moments of this love's afterlife, when the men meet a few times years later. During one of these meetings, Oliver, now a middle-aged married man with sons, declares that Elio was his 'heart of hearts'. It underlines the understated tragedy of a love lost, one which remains inexplicable, that seems like a violation of the essential rules of love. The emotion at the end is almost too much to bear, at least for this reader. Love stories seldom come as good as this. It's amazing that it's a first novel, the handling of theme and language so mature, so intelligent, so moving. As I write in 2017, ten years after it was published, a film has been released of the book. I am wondering how a film maker can turn such Proustian prose, such a delicate analysis of the heart's movements, into visuals without losing the essential texture of the story, the sense of a man looking back with such refined emotion at the defining summer of his life. I wonder if it will be able to catch the exceptional nature of this love between men, not through the introspective meditations of a literary text but through visuals, where everything has to be inferred. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Well-written and sensual, if a little pretentious..... *by B***S on 10 August 2016* In the sticky, sultry heat of an Italian summer, 17 year old Elio, clever and capricious, falls in love for the first time with an older American student boarding at his home. At the end of those 6 weeks of summer, Elio will have discovered things about himself that he would never have believed possible but he will also, sadly, have realised that although love can be amazing, it can also be cruel and fickle too. 4 stars from me. This was a well-written and sensual tale [fruit included], but struck me as a little pretentious at times, which is the reason why I read in small doses and took my time with it [I mean, it's only been on my kindle nearly 2 years...]. The vivid memories and images it evoked brought to mind holidays of my misspent youth [haha], lazing the days away on hot, sandy beaches on one or other of the Spanish islands, napping in the afternoon stillness.... I wasn't completely sure if Oliver was aware of his apparent cruelty sometimes. How he seemed to blow hot and cold...actively encouraging Elio only to then do a complete 180 and treat him like an invisible person...as though he literally didn't exist, and yes, I understand that this is the potential smack in the face that gay guys come to expect from 'straight' friends all the time. It's extremely cruel...to be led on only to be rejected...finally, but it's not until the end of their 6 weeks together that we get to find out what Oliver was actually doing when Elio thought he was out sleeping around with the local girls. The ending made me sad, but there were no tears. ## Frequently Bought Together - Call Me by Your Name: A Novel - Find Me: A Novel - Beautiful Boy (tie-In): A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.jp/products/100410035-call-me-by-your-name-a-novel](https://www.desertcart.jp/products/100410035-call-me-by-your-name-a-novel) --- *Product available on Desertcart Japan* *Store origin: JP* *Last updated: 2026-09-13*