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El amor después del amor

Love After Love | Alfaguara, 2025

«Perhaps the only valid response to heartbreak lies in the path of art.»

Heartbreak brings suffering, disorientation, even rage. It happens to all of us, but there are some—writers, painters, sculptors, actors, musicians—for whom the pain of rupture became the spark that ignited creativity.
Laura Ferrero’s prose intertwines with Marc Pallarès’s illustrations to portray those rare figures who transformed sorrow into artistic genius. From Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes to Taylor Swift and Jake Gyllenhaal, across every story in this book, art emerges as the key to surviving love’s dissolution and finding the strength to move forward.

PRESS

«A catalogue raisonné of difficult loves.» El Periódico

«Two devotees of endings that are beginnings have come together to honour the wounds of others that have given us so much joy and sadness. And that is one of the forms of love.» Virginia Mendoza

El amor después del amor

Love After Love | Alfaguara, 2025

«Perhaps the only valid response to heartbreak lies in the path of art.»

Heartbreak brings suffering, disorientation, even rage. It happens to all of us, but there are some—writers, painters, sculptors, actors, musicians—for whom the pain of rupture became the spark that ignited creativity.
Laura Ferrero’s prose intertwines with Marc Pallarès’s illustrations to portray those rare figures who transformed sorrow into artistic genius. From Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes to Taylor Swift and Jake Gyllenhaal, across every story in this book, art emerges as the key to surviving love’s dissolution and finding the strength to move forward.

PRESS

«A catalogue raisonné of difficult loves.» El Periódico

«Two devotees of endings that are beginnings have come together to honour the wounds of others that have given us so much joy and sadness. And that is one of the forms of love.» Virginia Mendoza