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.
There's a total of 11 (!!!) pages devoted to Elio and Oliver. I could perhaps overcome this if the rest of the story was any good...to be honest it wasn't. The writing was also quite cringy. I could barely believe this was possibly written by the same author as 'Call me by your name'. I was about to give it two stars, but 'Find Me' was too big of a disappointment.
