I always knew my mother couldn’t hear, but I can’t remember when it dawned on me that she’d always be deaf. Phone orders min p&p of £1.The author’s mother on her engagement day, in Alexandria, in 1946. Free UK p&p over £15, online orders only. To order a copy go to or call 020-3176 3837. In this I consider myself the luckiest son on earth.” Michel, Elio’s lover, obsesses over his dead father, while in the novel’s tender conclusion, Elio realises that fatherhood can come in many different guises.īut at its core, Find Me is a study in love: not only the love we dare to embrace but the love that exists in the parallel lives we lack the courage to explore.įind Me by André Aciman is published by Faber (£14.99). Likewise, Samuel’s relationship with Elio is based on mutual love and respect: “We never had any secrets, you and I, you know about me, and I know about you. Miranda is the primary carer for her father their relationship is devoid of the delusions that often cloud familial relationships. And yet Aciman manages, by immersing us in their emotional dynamics, to present this intellectual sparring without pretentiousness.įathers – and their enduring influence – loom large. Characters fall in love with one another’s discourse, with topics ranging from literature and music to notions of time, desire and fate: “time is always the price we pay for the unlived life”. Oliver himself, meanwhile, is in an unhappy marriage, ruminating over his love affair with Elio, and it is not until the last section that Aciman delivers their long-awaited, inevitable reunion.įind Me is an unashamedly romantic and philosophical novel. But Elio, a concert pianist, cannot silence the echo of his first great love, Oliver: “so many years could go by and leave me still attached to someone who had become an invisible presence”. The second section finds Elio embarking on a new relationship with an older man, Michel, in a clear parallel to his father’s relationship with Miranda. Within hours, in spite of the age difference between them, they are planning a life together: “I’ll know that whatever time you’ve given me, my entire life… was all leading up to you.” The two begin talking and soon discover a deep connection. The opening section finds Elio’s father, Samuel, on a train from Florence to Rome, sharing a carriage with a beautiful young photographer, Miranda.
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