Multilingual Lovers

An ironic and biting reflection on the nature of love and creativity, mocking male hegemony in life and art.

Eleanor is thirty-six. Pragmatic and free of sentimental illusions, she meets men online until the Internet finally brings her together—with a snowstorm trapping her in his home—with a literary critic from Stockholm. While reading Houellebecq, she destroys something that isn’t hers: Max Lamas’s manuscript.

Max Lamas is a writer dreaming of a polyglot lover—a woman who will understand him in all languages at once.

But to find someone who will understand you, you must learn to understand others yourself. Searching for the ideal partner brings the writer to Italy, where he meets the family of the Marchioness Latini Orsini.

The destinies of all the heroes end up whimsically intertwined because of that very manuscript that leaves no one indifferent. The past meets the present and turns into fiction—a mad fantasy you can’t help believing in.