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Call Me by Your Name adaptations: books & films
Every version of Call Me by Your Name — the books & films, compared across media.
The summer of 1983, a villa in Lombardy, Italy, and a seventeen-year-old named Elio whose quiet days are upended when Oliver — a graduate student working as an intern for his father — arrives and sets something irreversible in motion. That charged encounter is the shared heartbeat of Call Me by Your Name, a story that exists as both a novel and a 2017 film, each tracing the same fleeting summer from its own angle.
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Frequently asked
Is Call Me by Your Name based on a book?
Yes — the 2017 film Call Me by Your Name is adapted from the novel Call Me by Your Name, which follows 17-year-old Elio during a summer in Lombardy, Italy, where he meets a doctoral student named Oliver.
How many versions of Call Me by Your Name are there?
There are currently two versions: the novel Call Me by Your Name and the 2017 film Call Me by Your Name, both set during the summer of 1983 in Italy.
Which Call Me by Your Name should I start with?
Either is a fine entry point. The novel Call Me by Your Name is the original telling of Elio and Oliver's summer, while the 2017 film Call Me by Your Name offers a cinematic version of the same story.