Love notebook

Author's name: Elena Hirvonen

This is not a traditional romantic novel, but a meditative journey exploring the meaning of love and its many contradictions. In an isolated time and a suspended world, a woman boards a train to Madrid to write about love. She meets her friends, listens to music, and converses with acquaintances and those she meets by chance, in a silent city under a state of emergency. From cafes and bars to a palace floating on the Tigris, the novel leads us through empty streets and intimate moments, where every conversation becomes a reflection of human fragility and a deep longing for connection. With a style that combines delicacy and contemplation, Hirvonen presents a work that illuminates presence, longing, and all possible forms of love, in a fast-paced world increasingly heated and noisy with questions about meaning, joy, and what remains of hope.