ANDRÉ ACIMAN.
Just when you thought you were over that emotional final scene of Elio Perlman – played by Timothée Chalamet – intensely sobbing into the fire at the end of Call Me By Your Name, the book’s author André Aciman is back with a sequel to transport you back into their lives.
Find Me jumps ahead 10, 15 and 20 years from the events of that fateful summer in 1983 to find our beloved characters Elio and Oliver in very different places in their lives. This follow-up is most likely not what fans of the first instalment are expecting, but André’s romantic and thoughtful writing style keeps those pages turning. Like its predecessor, we head back to Italy – as well as Paris and New York City – complete with references of classical lore, moments of uncertain desire, and with music taking characters back in time.
Here we speak with André about Find Me’s unexpected first half, if the Academy Award-winning success of Call Me By Your Name influenced his story in any way, and if this is the last time we are going to read about Elio and Oliver’s relationship.
Congratulations on Find Me. When I first read this novel, I was quite surprised because you dedicate the first half of the novel to Elio’s father, Samuel. So knowing that readers would be expecting to dive back into Elio’s mind from the off, why did you decide to start off from the perspective of Samuel?
It’s a good question, and I’ll give you a rather complicated answer because there are many answers. First of all, over the years after Call Me by Your Name got published, I figured there was another space between when the two parts and the 20 years later took place that I have to fill in. So I
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