Find Me

A Novel

De: André Aciman

Narrado por: Michael Stuhlbarg

2019 Vogue Magazine Best Books of the Year
2019 Amazon.com Best Books of the Year

"[Narrator Michael Stuhlbarg's] elegant performance and Aciman's sensitive writing keep things touching without ever being sentimental. Wonderful listening." (AudioFile magazine, Earphones Award winner)

This program is read by Michael Stuhlbarg, the actor who played Professor Samuel Perlman in Luca Guadagnino's critically acclaimed film Call Me by Your Name.

A bonus conversation between Michael Stuhlbarg and André Aciman is included at the end of the program.

In this spellbinding exploration of the varieties of love, the author of the worldwide best seller Call Me by Your Name revisits its complex and beguiling characters decades after their first meeting.

No novel in recent memory has spoken more movingly to contemporary listeners about the nature of love than André Aciman’s haunting Call Me by Your Name. First published in 2007, it was hailed as “a love letter, an invocation...an exceptionally beautiful book” (Stacey D’Erasmo, The New York Times Book Review). Nearly three quarters of a million copies have been sold, and the book became a much-loved, Academy Award-winning film starring Timothée Chalamet as the young Elio and Armie Hammer as Oliver, the graduate student with whom he falls in love.

In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio’s father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, who has become a gifted classical pianist. A chance encounter on the train with a beautiful young woman upends Sami’s plans and changes his life forever.

Elio soon moves to Paris, where he, too, has a consequential affair, while Oliver, now a New England college professor with a family, suddenly finds himself contemplating a return trip across the Atlantic.

Aciman is a master of sensibility, of the intimate details and the emotional nuances that are the substance of passion. Find Me brings us back inside the magic circle of one of our greatest contemporary romances to ask if, in fact, true love ever dies.

©2019 André Aciman (P)2019 Macmillan Audio

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"Narrator Michael Stuhlbarg's rough, raspy voice lends a whispery intimacy to this sequel to Call Me by Your Name...." (AudioFile Earphone Award)

Soothing narration//intimate story

I loved Call Me By Your Name. I guess that has to be said. I think I love Aciman’s writing for his language choices. His words leave me stunned and I find myself often going back and rereading lines over and over again because of their beauty. But I also loved these characters and wanted to see what their lives looked and felt like decades later. I was wholly pleased with the outcomes.

And I would listen to anything Michael Stuhlbarg narrates.

Perfect

While many people seem to believe that this book can not compete with Call Me By Your Name, I believe that they were not meant to compete. If you need only the whirlwind of emotion and fault from CMBYN maybe this book is not meant for you. If you care for the characters, though, and wish to follow them through a clearer set of lenses then this book needs to be read. It is different and not competition but perfect.

absolutely remarkable, Beautifully written.

If you could change the name of Oliver to Steve. And Elio to David, you would have my life. Thank you Mr. Aciman for taking me on this journey. I will always look at life much differently now. And yes, I am an old man.

It’s all about Time

Time is a price too high we pay whenever we are not being ourselves. That’s the main idea I got from this book.

Don't Fine Me!

I really wanted to like this book but I couldn't. At least the first book felt like a coming of age story. This was a waste of time.

Is it a sequel ?

I think that it's unfair to expect this to be a continuation of the Elio / Oliver story. The first book ended perfectly. I would guess that after the response to the movie version of CMBYN, Andre Aciman was under pressure to write a "sequel". He did a good job. I also think this book could be read as a stand-alone, although anyone reading it wouldn't have the emotional investment in the characters without having read the first book. I did have a few issues with the narration....Michael Stulbarg was overly dramatic at many parts and gave the characters a whinny / irritating voice that didn't match the intention of the dialogue IMHO.
Not terrible, but not a nessecary sequel either. I REALLY hope there is no sequel to the movie, it ended perfectly.

Got it

Finally got it.
Will listen to it tomorrow.
Hope i could enjoy.
Thanks to Audible for such in time update.

So Enjoyed

Although very different from "Call Me by Your Name," this book is enjoyable in so many ways. Yes, we do follow both men through their lives and the overall impact of their love, but you also watch them grow and mature while still remembering their early years.

There are twists and turns and mysteries to be discovered and then the final question of if and when they may meet again.

Find Me. The sequel to Call Me by Your Name.

I love this book as I did it’s predecessor. I was very moved and wanted to know more about Elio and Oliver overall and knew yet that that was not what this book concentrated on. It was difficult to decipher between when the character’s perspective changed. It was a it confusing at times, yet it’s soooo satisfying. I highly recommend this novel and hope that the story doesn’t end here and there will be subsequent movies to follow.

Was hoping for more

Ok, like so many I was ready for a further continuation of Call Me By Your Name. Alas, this really isn’t it. The portion of the 200 plus page book devoted to Elio and Oliver is a mere 11 pages, that’s it. Granted I was satisfied with were we left them at this end of this book, but there was so much more than we got, that needed to be delved into. But based on the words of Mr. Aciman, this is it for our heros.
The first two thirds of the book is about Mr Perlman and a much younger he meets on the train. Mr Aciman has relayed how this sort of encounter happened to him and this is more a less of allowing himself to see how it might have played out. If he wanted to do a book about this, he should have just left Elio and Oliver our of it. We learn a bit more about Elio and Oliver’s life apart from one another in the next 2 sections before the final 11 pages.
Michael Stuhlbarg’s reading was nice but it felt odd hearing him reading the thoughts of Elio and Oliver.
I’m glad there was a happy ending of sorts but I’m now left wanting more.