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Violence
None
No significant violence
Language
Barely any
Some strong language
Sexual Content
Very heavy
Explicit sexual content between a seventeen-year-old and a twenty-four-year-old adult; several graphic scenes
Substance Use
Barely any
Social drinking throughout
Emotional Intensity
A lot
A profound portrait of desire, longing, and the ways a first love leaves permanent marks on the psyche
What this book is about
In a villa in the Italian Riviera in the 1980s, seventeen-year-old Elio falls intensely in love with Oliver, a twenty-four-year-old American academic spending the summer with his family. Aciman's lyrical novel traces the arc of their relationship — the longing, the consummation, and the lifelong aftermath — in prose of unusual sensory richness.
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
Explicit sexual content involving a minor (age 17)
Age gap relationship between teen and adult
Explicit sexual scenes including the well-known 'peach' scene
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