Hector and the Secrets of Love
A Novel
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
The irresistible second installment in the beloved series that has sold millions of copies worldwide.
Since his first captivating adventure in Hector and the Search for Happiness, Hector the young French psychiatrist has continued to explore the mysteries of the human soul. Having found that love seems virtually inseparable from happiness, he begins taking notes on this powerful emotion. But unbeknownst to him, Clara, the doctor's beloved, is making her own investigations into love.
As much a love story as a novel about love, Hector and the Secrets of Love is a feel-good life manual wrapped in a globetrotting adventure, told with the blend of a fairy tale's naïve wisdom and a satirist's dry wit that has won Hector fans around the world.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A smarmy follow-up to Lelord s first effort finds the placid French psychiatrist Hector enlisted in a pharmaceutical experiment that leaves him with romantic troubles of his own. Listening to his unhappy patients, Hector observes that love, it seemed, was an endless source of suffering, bons mots he has experienced with his own girlfriend, Clara, a salesperson at a big pharmaceutical company. While accompanying Clara on her company retreat, Hector is persuaded by Gunther, the conniving company head, into tracking down a rogue American professor of Happiness Studies who has vanished into an unnamed Asian country with a new drug that allows people to fall in love with whomever they want and, moreover, stay in love. Just as Clara is taking up an affair with her boss, Hector sets out in search of the professor, who drops him notes and delivers some of the love potion by a comely messenger, Vayla. Hector and Vayla fall irretrievably in love, though are unable to speak to each other. Ever aware of the economic inequities between him and those he encounters, Hector exhibits nonetheless some conflicted feelings regarding the beauty and youth of the Asian women and lovely Vayla s slavish obedience to his every whim. Lelord s saccharine tale delineates a universal, palatable message about attachment and need, self-interest and freedom.
Customer Reviews
I must read for an avid ponderer of life's real problems
Let me start with the Pros; I loved the book and the topic of the subject matter because for me I've always seen the heartaches caused by love. Its interesting to read a book where you not only get to follow a character such as Hector grow but ponder on life's problems with all the characters. It talks about things people don't want to hear like the idea of "Perfect Love". Love is complex which is partly why it's so beautiful. As for the cons; the only two reasons I don't give it a five is because a certain scene at the end felt rushed through for such a major key item. Two because of some translation errors I found through out the book. I understand the Author originally wrote this in French but that doesn't mean the translators couldn't have fixed the spelling and sentences structure errors.