This is a story of awakening sensuality and first love. Elio spends endless hot days at a villa in Italy. Trips to the beach, reading, music, intellectual conversations with his father's graduate students—all this is repeated year after year. But this summer, a young scientist, Oliver, arrives at the villa, a meeting with whom changes Elio's life forever...

A bestseller according to The New York Times, USA Today, and the Los Angeles Times. Winner of the prestigious 2017 Lambda Literary Award. Book of the Year according to The New York Times and The Washington Post. The book was adapted into a film that won an Oscar for Best Screenplay, starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet. Over 100,000 high ratings and 12,000 rave reviews on Goodreads.