Valentine’s Day: Nine books about love and one about heartbreak

In the weeks leading up to Valentine’s Day, novelties in the romantic genre have proliferated in bookstores along with other works about love that invite you to experience the next February 14th among the pages of a book.

The following are some of the titles that have just been published on the subject of love: nine about love – books of stories, letters and novels, several of them for young people – with the heartbroken counterpoint of Cesare Pavese’s letter:

.- ‘Phantom love’ by Lisa Taddeo (Principal of Books).– A collection of nine stories about the fever of obsession, the blindness of love and the pain of wounds inflicted by men. Among them, one about a dating app that is a kind of sentimental office that only gives advice to its clients and another about three women competing at a party to win the heart of the guest of honor.

.- ‘Blind love’, Wilkie Collins (Montesinos).- This one novel which began serial publication in 1889, explores the relationship between love and the institution of marriage with the prisons they both create, against the social expectations and prejudices of England which still dominated Ireland.

.– ‘Letters of love’, Nicolas Bersihand (Ediciones B).- A volume that collects love letters — chaste, passionate, fraternal, homosexual, forbidden or stormy — of great characters from literature and history. From Virginia Woolf to the correspondence of Dalí and Lorca, passing through Carmen Laforet or Truman Capote.

– ‘All the places we kept secret’ by Inma Rubiales (Planeta).– This author with more than 28 million readings on the self-publishing platform Wattpad, in her seventh romance novel for young people, proposes a love story of two young people living in icy Finland, with which she wants to destroy the cliché of toxic love.

– ‘Amor & Hate’ Belén Gopegui, Nando López, Begoña Oro and Roberto Santiago (SM).– These four authors in eight hands wrote this youthful romantic “thriller” set at the Benidorm Fest in which four characters meet the night before the finals of a music competition, where there will be escapes, guns, explosions and endless traps Avoid.

.- ‘Until the last of my days’, Yamilet Cázares (Montena).- The first novel of this young Mexican writer that tells a love story that delves into themes such as depression, abuse and the power of love.

.- ‘Love from another time’, Ada West (Roca Editorial).- This novel is set in the forests of New England, in a Puritan town that still lives in the 19th century and where a young Spanish woman will go to work as a character from the period, showing tourists ancient crafts and where she will meet the future heir of that country.

.- ‘Magnolia Parks’, Jessa Hastings (Molino).- Introduced as a phenomenon on Tiktok, this romantic novel is set in London’s high society and stars a beautiful, rich, selfish and slightly capricious celebrity and “the most photographed bad boy in England”.

.- ‘Indigo Summit’, Devney Perr (Ediciones B).- Considered the “queen of mountain romances,” this best-selling North American author arrives in Spanish-language bookstores with a story set in a small town whose new police chief must investigate the appearance of a body on the property of the family of a man with whom she had a “one-night stand” and who considers her irresistible. But the killer thinks the same.

.- ‘Letters of a broken heart’, Cesare Pavese (Altamarea).- This publishing house proposes a book about the sentimental failures of an Italian writer as the best “antidote” for Valentine’s Day, a “sour and painful” counterpoint to this celebration and in which it brings together a selection of letters, some of them unpublished in the Spanish language, which share a deep and deep-rooted lack of love. which the author felt from the age of twenty-something towards the embittered man he had become shortly before his suicide.