<Tr> <Th> Dewey Decimal </Th> <Td> 813 /. 6 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> LC Class </Th> <Td> PS3601. C525 C35 2007 </Td> </Tr> <P> Call Me by Your Name is a 2007 novel by American writer André Aciman about a love affair between an intellectually precocious and curious 17 - year - old American - Italian Jewish boy and a visiting 24 - year - old American Jewish scholar in 1980s Italy . The novel chronicles their summer romance and the 20 years that follow . </P> <P> The narrator, Elio Perlman, recalls the events of the summer of 1987, when he was seventeen and living with his parents in Italy . Each summer, his parents would take in a doctoral student as a house guest for six weeks, who would revise a book manuscript while assisting his father with academic paperwork . Elio resents the tradition, as it requires him to vacate his bedroom so the guest can use it for the duration of their stay . </P>

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