{"title":"Books by André Aciman","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"llamame-por-tu-nombre","title":"Llámame por tu nombre","description":"\u003ch4\u003eA journey through the deepest corners of feelings and eroticism.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLlámame por tu nombre\u003c\/em\u003e has been awarded the Lambda Literary Award, named Best Book of the Year by \u003cem\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e, and is the novel on which the film \u003cem\u003eCall Me by Your Name\u003c\/em\u003e is based.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a town on the Italian coast during the 1980s, Elio’s family established the tradition of hosting young students or creators in the summer who, in exchange for lodging, would assist the head of the family, a professor, with his cultural commitments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOliver is the chosen one this summer, a young American writer who soon excites Elio’s imagination. Over the following weeks, hidden impulses of obsession and fear, fascination and desire will intensify their passion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAndré Aciman\u003c\/span\u003e was born in 1951 in Alexandria, into a Sephardic Jewish family of Turkish origin. Educated at Harvard University, he has been a professor of Comparative Literature and Creative Writing at Bard College and at Princeton and New York universities. Regarding his creative work, he is well known as an essayist and scholar of Marcel Proust’s work. In 1996, \u003cem\u003eLejos de Egipto\u003c\/em\u003e, a memoir about his childhood and adolescence, was published and earned the prestigious Whiting Award. He later published the essay collection \u003cem\u003eFalse Papers: Essays on Exile and Memory\u003c\/em\u003e, the novel \u003cem\u003eOcho noches blancas\u003c\/em\u003e, and contributed as coauthor and editor to the works \u003cem\u003eLetters of Transit\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Proust Project\u003c\/em\u003e. Alfaguara has published \u003cem\u003eVariaciones Enigma\u003c\/em\u003e (2019); \u003cem\u003eLlámame por tu nombre\u003c\/em\u003e (2008), his first novel, successfully adapted into a film by Luca Guadagnino and winner of the Lambda Literary Award and Best Book of the Year honors from \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eEncuéntrame\u003c\/em\u003e (2020), its long-awaited sequel. \u003cem\u003eHomo irrealis\u003c\/em\u003e is his latest book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Debolsillo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55302226542936,"sku":"LIB-LL-DE-139","price":10.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8464\/0856\/files\/llamame-por-tu-nombre-andre-aciman-6596754.jpg?v=1761779555"},{"product_id":"encuentrame-literaturas","title":"Encuéntrame (Literaturas)","description":"\u003cp\u003eELIO AND OLIVER ARE BACK\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinally, the continuation of Call Me by Your Name.\u003cbr\u003eThe most popular love story of recent years returns.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the best books of the year according to Time and Vogue.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A delight of sensuality.”\u003cbr\u003eObserver\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2018, the whole world was moved by the summer love between Elio and Oliver. Call Me by Your Name, originally published more than ten years earlier, became a phenomenon thanks to the film released that year. And this tale of desire, discovery, passion, and endless evenings reached thousands of readers who, with bated breath, await to find out how this story ends. Finally, in Find Me, Elio and Oliver return.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElio is now a rising pianist about to move to Paris; Oliver is a professor, a father, and may return to visit Europe; Samuel, Elio’s father, lives in Italy and, on a train trip to visit his son, will have an encounter that will change his life. This crossing of stories will satisfy all expectations, no matter how unconfessable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCritics have said...\u003cbr\u003e“Aciman recovers the smoothness of the narration from the first novel to address love and its contradictions, and other fears, but the same hope that never sleeps. It is again about time, memory, memories, the desire to relive and give a second chance. The beauty that beats in real or dreamed love. In Find Me, paradise is kept in a heart that moves the days forward.”\u003cbr\u003eWMagazine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Reading André Aciman is like falling in love.”\u003cbr\u003eXavi Ayén, La Vanguardia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It will satisfy all expectations, no matter how unconfessable.”\u003cbr\u003eArturo San Román, Qué\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“As in the previous installment, this novel is sprinkled with themes such as music, beauty, love, and desire, and adds other issues like fate, the passage of time, the unfulfilled promise of the past, and death. Alongside Aciman, we reflect on who we are and who we have become after all those lives we have not dared to explore.”\u003cbr\u003eEl Cultural de El Mundo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“If you’re the type to mark books, keep a pencil handy because there are very interesting reflections. Enjoy it [...] because there are few stories that, like loves, always stay with us. And this one, without a doubt, is one of them.”\u003cbr\u003ePatricia Tena, Llegir en cas d'incenci\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“About principles and desires (in summer months, always favorable), [...] a story that stays forever. There are such resounding successes that end up blurring the authorship. That’s why we must not forget the writer: André Aciman. [...] Thank you for giving us the summer of Elio and Oliver.”\u003cbr\u003eEl Mundo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A fabulous (hetero) idyll, even more utopian and sublime if possible.”\u003cbr\u003eGonzalo Cordero, Esquire\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“There are moments that can make readers look at the fireplace, real or imaginary, crying, like Timothée Chalamet at the end of the wonderful film Call Me by Your Name.”\u003cbr\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A lyrical reflection [...] on the Sisyphean task of trying to replicate the passion of a youthful love.”\u003cbr\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The sequel is as desperately seductive as the original.”\u003cbr\u003eElle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Moving.”\u003cbr\u003ePeople\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Written with the same turbulent prose [...] and full of grace as Call Me by Your Name. [...] I have been unable to break away from Aciman’s hypnotic rhythms.”\u003cbr\u003eSpencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alfaguara","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57188920000856,"sku":"9788420439402","price":20.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8464\/0856\/files\/9788420439402.jpg?v=1777240904"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.plasticbooks.uk\/en\/collections\/libros-andre-aciman.oembed","provider":"Plastic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}