What happens when the love of years faces routine, wear or temptation to abandon everything? Like the series The four stationsthere are novels with the same vibes that explore in depth the relationships that have been together for decades, showing their cracks, their nostalgia and those unexpected twists that revive them. If you are looking for realistic, emotional and nuances about marriages in crisis that find a new spark, we recommend these books.
The surprises of life
After winterby Mexican author Guadalupe Nettel is a melancholic novel about two loners who are in the middle of her own ruins. Claudio, an obsessive Cuban who lives in New York, and Ruth, a Mexican wounded by his past, have parallel lives until chance unites them. Monotony and pain have marked them, but in their encounter they discover that even the most broken people can heal together.
After winter
Guadalupe Nettel
Ocean anagram
For those who love the stories that mix reality with fiction is women’s Stationby Carla Guelfenbein, who weaves the lives of five women in different times, joined for their fight against social mandates and the search for their own voice. In this mosaic about love it is narrated with rawness and beauty How the relationships – of the couple, with the same, with the world – are fractured and reinvent.
Women’s Station
Carla Guelfenbein
Alfaguara
Yesterday
A contemporary story about a marriage that has fallen into routine and incommunication is, without a doubt, The broken yearsof the Spanish writer ELísabet Benavent. When a car accident puts their lives at risk, the couple is forced to face all the words not said, The accumulated resentments and the most difficult question: do you really want to continue together? Benavent, known for his close and emotional style, builds a story about the fear of losing what is taken for granted.
The broken years
Dacia Maraini
Altamarea Editions
We cannot fail to mention in this list Love in cholera timesby Gabriel García Márquez, a masterpiece about the love that resists the passage of time. Fermina Daza and Florentino Ariza fall in love in their youth, but life separates them. Half a century later, when Fermina’s marriage with Dr. Juvenal Urbino ends with his death, Florentino reappears to show that his love never died. García Márquez portrays patience, obsession and redemption in a lyrical and moving narrative.
Books with the same vibes of “the four stations”
Shamelessby Vonne Lara, is immersed in the limits of desire and faithfulness by following an established couple whose marriage, apparently perfect, begins to crack under the weight of routine and un confessed fantasies. When an unexpected encounter with an old love shakes the foundations of their commitment, both are forced to confront uncomfortable questions:Can mature love coexist with desire? Is fidelity a choice or imposition?
Shameless
Vonne Lara
Grijalbo
Set in Madrid of the 1980s, Thus begins the badby Javier Marías, follows Juan, a young personal assistant who becomes involuntary witness of the turbulent relationship between his boss, Eduardo Muriel (a cynical and disappointed filmmaker) and his wife Beatriz (a woman whose beauty hides a deep unhappiness). The Spanish writer, with his characteristic reflexive prose and full of nuances, unravels how a simple act of indiscretion can trigger a chain of events that forever alter the fragile balance of a marriage.
Thus begins the bad
Javier Marías
Alfaguara
