Universe of books: Works of love for hearts in love, heartbroken or who want to believe again in this Valentine’s Day

Love is a feeling that for years has inspired hundreds of writers, who have found in the written word the best way to capture personal or third-party stories or have allowed themselves to imagine one. “Love comforts like the glow of the sun after the rain”said William Shakespeare. A moment of happiness can lead to a story of years, capable of lasting and surviving the strongest tides.

Next, we present you with a selection of novels and love books, whose stories do not only focus on romantic love.

“Modern Love” by Daniel Jones

In 2004 Daniel Jones began writing one of the most famous love columns in the world. The New York TimesThese stories were later turned into a podcast, then a book, and finally turned into an Amazon Prime series starring Anne Hathaway, Dev Patel, Tina Fey, and Andrew Scott.

Modern Love is a selection of these moving stories of love, loss and reconciliation, intended for the reader who believes in love, who has been heartbroken and who has gone through a series of obstacles where affection has emerged victorious.

This work has among its stories a bipolar lawyer who experiences ups and downs in her appointments, that of a mother who tries to rebuild her relationship with the son she gave up for adoption when she was a teenager, that of a woman who is about to Passing away writes her husband’s profile on a dating platform, among others.

‘Love in the Time of Cholera’, by Gabriel García Márquez

Inspired by his parents’ courtship story, Gabriel García Márquez published in 1985 one of his most melancholic books in the history of universal literature, where unrequited love takes almost half a century. The work focuses on the love story between Florenino Ariza and Fermina Daza, but other types of love are woven around them, such as romantic love, love for children, passionate love, fraternal love, and love that is built on everyday customs.

The book presents Florencio who, after fifty years, nine months and four days, returns to profess his love for Fermina, who, despite having been deeply in love with him, marries a rich doctor from a good family. Some consider this work as a tribute to love, adventures, time, old age and death.

‘The Japanese lover’, by Isabel Allende

Taking San Francisco as the setting, Isabel Allende presents the love story between two people from different social classes. Alma Velasco, is a wealthy woman who is sent by her parents to live in the house of her uncles; here she meets Ichimei Fukuda, son of the family gardener. This pair of lovers begin a secret romance that survives separation, criticism and time.

In her old age, when she is admitted to a nursing home, the protagonist meets a mysterious woman, with whom she discovers the love letters that her Japanese lover wrote to her.

“Start Over” by Collen Hoover

You can always start over and believe in love, and especially when fate puts second chances on the road. Collen Hoover presents the sequel to break the circleunder the name Start over. In this second installment, the characters Lily and her ex-husband Ryle reach an agreement on the custody of their daughter, just as Lily meets her first love, Atlas.

This pair of lovers have a first date again after two years, and the protagonist feels that time is on her side. But her joy fades when she thinks her ex-husband Ryle might not allow her to rebuild her life with a new love, let alone her daughter in her midst.

“We will discover more about Atlas’s past and follow Lily in search of a second chance to find true love while having to deal with a jealous ex-husband,” says its synopsis.

‘Noah’s Notebook’, by Nicholas Sparks

If what you are looking for is to cry with one of those movie love stories, Noah’s notebook by Nicholas Sparks is the ideal choice. This book, made into a movie starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams, presents the love story of Noah and Allie.

In a journal that he carries everywhere, Noah writes down all the memories of his history with Allie, to whom he reads them many years later, trying to bring back some of the memories between them. These characters meet for a summer, and their love transcends time over a series of tides, disagreements, obstacles and even a Second World War. (YO)