Find Me

By: André Aciman

Narrated by: Michael Stuhlbarg

Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins

Publisher's summary

In this spellbinding new exploration of the varieties of love, the author of Call Me by Your Name lets us back into his characters' lives years after their first meeting

In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio's father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, now a gifted classical pianist. A chance encounter on the train upends Sami's visit and changes his life forever.

Elio soon moves to Paris, where he, too, has a consequential affair, while Oliver, 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 nuances of emotion that are the substance of passion.

Find Me brings us back inside the world of one of our greatest contemporary romances to show us that in fact true love never dies.

©2019 André Aciman (P)2019 Faber Audio

Mine is a practical romance

The "have you eaten" or "have you put on sunscreen" kind of romance. Find me has allowed me to glimpse the lives of three, in my opinion, hopeless romantics and find longing to be the same as them someday.

Amazing book

Lovely just lovely, especially Sammy's part was very nice and the narrator was just amazing.

PERFECT

"Perfect." I think there's nothing else to say about this magnificent book, to be honest.

Can't say it's a successful sequel to CMBYN

On one and another occasion I suspected this is the product of an old man's obscenity. Nevertheless, I would rather fail victim to this braw illusion. Hope that after years of departure you are still in each other's mind. Hope that true love never dies.

So disappointing

This book, taken on its own merits, feels like a character study of two people, Sammy and Miranda who seem to fall in profound love in about five seconds flat. These two characters spend the first half of the book navel gazing. It’s so self indulgent that you really can’t take any of it seriously. It borders on the ridiculous. And eventually, when you get to the story of Oliver and Eliot, which is ostensibly why this book exists, you realize that this writer can only write about Naval gazing love and it kind of takes away from the beauty of Call Me by Your Name. Are all of his characters this self involved?

The novel is full of digressions, that do nothing to further the plot, and there’s not much plot to begin with.

The beauty of Call Me by Your Name came from the main characters youth and naïvete, And also from the idyllic once in a lifetime summer European setting. The whole thing had a sense of fantasy about it, especially told from the perspective of many many years later.