The Book of All Loves-9781804270790

The Book of All Loves by Mallo, Agustin Fernandez

Regular price
£10.99
Sale price
£10.99
Regular price
Sold out
Unit price
per 
Tax included.

Author: Mallo, Agustin Fernandez

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 14 February 2024 by Fitzcarraldo Editions in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 192 pages
128 x 196 x 19 | 252g

In the wake of the Great Blackout, faced with the near-extinction of humanity, a pair of lovers speak to each other. They parse, with precision, with familiarity, the endless aspects of their love. Out of their dialogues, piece by piece, a composite image of love takes form, one that moves outwards beyond the realm of relationships and into metaphysics, geology, linguistics, AI.

   Years previously, a writer and her husband, a Latin professor, stay in Venice while she works on a text. As they roam the city, strange occurrences accumulate, signalling that the world around them is heading towards a point of no return.

   Blending fiction and essay, poetry and philosophy, Agustín Fernández Mallo’s The Book of All Loves is a startling, expansive work of imaginative agility, one that renders love unfamiliar so as to renew it, and makes the case for hope in the midst of a disintegrating present.