A Review : the Lgbt Novel Call me by your name by André Aciman

 

My first ever LGBT novel I've read till the last page. It accompanied me from the crazy piled of tasks during my deadline till I finally home still doing the same tasks. I spent 14 days to finish this novel, it's quite longer than I usually did. It's because I don't even think to read this genre after unfinished reading from reading and blue royal wedding weeks ago. 

This novel is like poetry for me, the author leads the reader to also feel Italian summer and the beach over there. I feel like I was there on the rock, sand, or even work out with them every morning. I feel like I was with Elio when he's transcribing the manuscript, also with them when they are making love, etc. 

It tells from both Oliver and Elio's perspective which is good because the two of them are of different ages. 

I knew from the start that Elio's father knows there's something different about them, but he just keeps silent and gives them live on their life without even ask what'd happened. In another eight years, I'll be forty-seven 

and you forty. Five years from then, I'll be fifty-two and you forty-five. Will you come for dinner then?" 

They've expected this case will occur from the first. They just a man and a boy who impossibly stick together, besides their gap eight are far enough, they also the same gender and doing back street. 

The word later becomes familiar to me since reading this novel. They keep saying later than goodbye. I think everyone could be Elioinn their childhood, but the case may not the same because they won't make love to one another.

 The case mostly like this everyone has experienced having someone around to take care of them till it finally ends because they should make their own family (p.s get married and have children) and let us just continue for ourselves it hurts sometimes, but it's life.

You could have had this instead. But going back is false. Moving ahead is false. Looking the other way is false. Trying to redress all that is false turns out to be just as false. "

Like figuring out that they won't ever be together. The word calls me by your name first appear when they first time sleeps together and whisper to call their name to mention another name.

 They met again after 10 years and still have the same feeling even though Oliver had had two children and teased Elio to just choose his daughter than himself.

 The last words from this novel are

 if you are like me, then before you leave tomorrow, or when you're just ready to shut the door of the taxi and have already said goodbye to everyone else and there's not a thing left to say in this life, then, just this once, Turn to me, even  In jest, or as an afterthought, which would have meant everything to me when we were together, and, as you did back then, look me in the face, hold my gaze and call me by your name