About Love: Stories

Passion-burning and sudden, the kind that strikes unexpectedly in the resonant silence of a provincial drawing room or in the crowded waiting hall of a railway station-is often very far from the feeling of happiness that lingers in the chest. Love that arrives too late; love made impossible by the conventions of society; love that burns away in silent solitude while life continues to flow in its usual rhythm-the fire of desire and the cold of reason that rejects love, fused into a single flame of fate... "e;About Love"e; is not so much a collection of stories about human relationships as it is a confiding and deeply personal reflection by the author, imbued with a gentle, luminous melancholy, on the fleeting nature of feelings that nevertheless leave a lasting mark on the soul, and on the realization that it is impossible to hold on to what you love more than life itself.