(“It’s one of Luca’s best movies, might be the best,” he adds. Courtesy Photographīut Aciman’s work was catapulted into the limelight once director Luca Guadagnino got a hold of it, and made the movie version. “Find Me,” the follow-up to André Aciman’s novel “Call Me by Your Name,” is in stores Oct. It’s the mundane events that set his mind into exploration.

I’m inspired.”Īciman notes he rarely uses deep personal experiences as influence for his novels. But within a few pages I said, this is it. I started writing it with absolutely no idea that I was going into Sami’s life. “She asked me to take care of the dog while she went to the bathroom and so she and I started talking. “I started because I was on the train and a rather beautiful woman sat next to me with a dog,” he says. He’d spent years trying to write a sequel, attempting to pen a story about Elio at 20 years old, at 22, after college - no plot worked to his liking. This chance encounter sends the reader deep into the world the author spins in the subsequent chapters, but the inspiration for such a fantasy was based on a relatively mundane event that actually happened to Aciman. In the opening scene, Samuel meets a woman on the train.

Read More: It Took Lisa Taddeo Eight Years and Six Road Trips Across the U.S. The book, out today, zooms forward a number of years Elio is now in his mid-20s living in Rome awaiting a visit from his father, Samuel. These elements and storyline pick up and carry on in “Find Me,” the newly released follow-up novel to “Call Me by Your Name.” But regarding Aciman as simply “the guy who wrote the peach scene” means overlooking his florid, stylish prose an intense love for the craft, and a narrative that captures the inner workings of the complicated emotions Elio and Oliver encounter with one another. It certainly turned the story, and the peach, into a pop culture phenomenon. The scene he’s referring to is one from “Call Me by Your Name” in which Elio - a teenage character who’s fallen in love with the 24-year-old graduate student staying in his parents’ Italian countryside home, named Oliver - commits a sex act with a piece of fruit. The “Call Me by Your Name” book cover after the film, starring Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer, was released.

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