Either I have fooled everyone or I am being misled by my own insecurities.

Yet, this is the only relationship I know of, professionally, that I have been successful in.

This happens all the time and I am never ever happy. Troubled! It has always been troubled because I am a writer who has very little self confidence. So every time I write something, I am sure it would not be accepted and I would be laughed at. Under my father’s encouragement, who was a very literary man, I began and never stopped writing but I did start publishing very very late in my life.Īfter all these years, how would you define your relationship with writing as? I think that when I was about nine or ten years old, I wrote a poem and my dad read it and said that it was absolutely wonderful and told me that I should write more poetry. How were you led towards the world of writing? We had a chance to speak to André Aciman about all things Call Me By Your Name and its sequel, Find Me. While change is a constant and time passes us by, somethings remain untouched, just like the solace I and many others find in the story of Elio and Oliver. André Aciman has managed to take their story and explore quite faithfully, the aftermath of lost love that is found again. The two, finally ‘find’ each other, just like millions around the world have been praying and hoping for ever since the book came out.

Delineated in four sections, the first of which is actually based on Elio’s father Samy’s relationship with a new character Miranda, the book ends with a short but gratifying glimpse of Elio and Oliver, back together, paradoxically aged yet still the same. A heart wrenching story of unfulfilled love finally found its happy ending after almost two decades - both in the book’s and our actual universe - when André Aciman’s sequel to the book, Find Me, was released in late December last year. Call Me By Your Name bewitched the hearts of many, both as a book and as a film that had won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 2017. It would not remotely be an exaggeration to say that Elio and Oliver are perhaps some of the most beloved characters of this century for both readers and cinema lovers. ‘Our years between then and now were but a hiccup in that long itinerary called time.’

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