![]() On the train, Samuel encounters a stranger, Miranda, an American expat photographer half his age. ![]() He also plans to meet Elio, who is now a concert pianist. Ten years after the initial novel, the now-divorced classics professor is traveling by train from Florence to Rome to give a book reading. The leisurely narrative pace of the first part, “Tempo,” details what happened to Samuel, Elio’s sympathetic, understanding father who moves into the forefront of the story. ![]() Or at least must have the patience to wait until they appear in Find Me. ![]() Readers anxious to know more about Elio and Oliver (the main characters of the earlier novel) may at first be disappointed. There are three stories told in four parts - “Tempo,” “Cadenza,” “Capriccio,” and “Da Capo” - each presenting in exposition, development, and recapitulation a rhapsodic variation on the themes of desire and passion. The book is structured like a sonata, an appropriate form given that music dominates most of the novel. André Aciman’s Find Me, the intoxicating sequel to the phenomenally successful (mostly due to its Oscar-winning film adaptation) Call Me By Your Name, is an alluring, ardent study of fathers and sons and their lovers. ![]()
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