Call Me
Call Me By Your Name • Book 1
by André Aciman
Narrated by Armie Hammer
Why Listen to This Audiobook?
Armie Hammer narrating his own real-life cultural moment is either perfect casting or the most uncomfortable audiobook experience you'll have this year.
- Great if you want: languid, literary prose soaked in longing and memory
- Listening experience: slow, aching, and interior — summer heat you can feel
- Narration: Hammer's voice carries real sensuality, though context now adds friction
- Skip if: you can't separate the narrator from his public controversies
About This Audiobook
On the Italian Riviera, seventeen-year-old Elio navigates a restless summer at his family's cliffside villa when Oliver, an American scholar, arrives as a guest. The two circle each other for weeks, desire and resistance winding together in the heat until what begins as intellectual fascination becomes overwhelming and total. Their relationship unfolds across six weeks and one stolen night in Rome, brief by any measure but so thoroughly inhabited that it shapes both of them for the rest of their lives.
Armie Hammer's narration gives the story an intimate, unhurried quality that mirrors Aciman's prose, reading as if the listener is being confided in across a great distance of time. His voice captures Elio's adolescent intensity and the quality of memory that transforms even ordinary moments into something luminous. The audio format is ideal for a novel built almost entirely from interior experience, and Hammer's performance makes the longing on the page feel immediate and physical.