SINGAPORE - There is an iconic scene involving a peach in Andre Aciman's coming-of-age romance Call Me By Your Name (2007). To explain it in graphic detail would be to spoil it, but no reader can forget it. And it almost did not make it into the book.
"It's kind of over the top," says the American author, 68, over Skype. "I was going to cut it out of the book. I showed it to my editor and he said, 'Absolutely not, you have to keep that scene.'"
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