“Sometimes the mortgage lasts longer than the double”

Eloy Moreno enters in the couple’s world -and their separation- in your new novel when was it fun (Penguin Random House), to describe the difficulty of accepting the end of love. “I think it’s the best book for ex lovers”He jokes about the 46-year-old writer from Castellón. best selling phenomenon with his firstgreen gel pen2010) and has since sold 1.2 million copies with his books (Gift, Invisible, World, Different…). Moreno presents when was it fun This Wednesday at 18:30.At the 80 Mundos bookstore in Alicante.

“A story about how love will end”. He doesn’t like to say too much about his novels and here the last is important…

Everything is already known here, it’s true (laughs). The theme is slightly different and the title, when was it funit tells everything anyway, it wasn’t a matter of hiding what was going on.

Warn the reader that the novel may be disturbing. Did you feel uncomfortable while typing?

In the end, true stories I gathered from my acquaintances and I think anyone who reads the book can feel identified either because they are in a relationship or know someone like that, it wasn’t hard. . Perhaps the hardest thing was never knowing who was who in the book, trying not to tell if it was him when they were talking because they both have a name (Ale) and that was harder to do.

Another feature of the novel is that the two protagonists have the same name. Did he know in his head when one or the other was speaking?

Nerd. I tried to change it in each episode and you can’t objectively know who is who because there are no clues to tell. Each reader imagines who is speaking on their own personal circumstances and decides who he is and who he is. We were very careful not to use adjectives ending in “o” or “a”. And finally the book talks about a relationship between two people.

In his first book, the protagonist did not have a name, and here the names of the two characters are the same. Do you like to complicate the reader’s job?

It made sense here because I didn’t want anyone to be biased based on the gender of the character leaving just because they were in love with one person. I didn’t always want to be called a boy or a girl. He preferred that no one know who he was and that everyone adapt it to their own personal story. And you can’t tell who is who throughout the entire book. Neither do I.

She says it’s not suitable for all ages or all readers. Aren’t you exaggerating?

Especially since I have a book that is read in schools since the age of 12, I thought maybe they wouldn’t understand that relationship because they never had a relationship routine at the age of 12-13, they didn’t give it away. (laughs) and if they get close to the plot, they may not understand the plot.

It starts with a teen sex scene. First time sex in your books?

Well, it’s pretty obvious, yes, because my other stories didn’t require it, and it just didn’t make much sense to put the sex on for show. But here, speaking of couples, everything in the world made sense because in a relationship the sexual issue is obviously important and more visible. Although there is more to the book than sex, there is a lack of sex (laughs).

Ask how long a couple can go without sex. Did you do the calculation?

Well, I once asked this on social networks and it all came out: couples who have been together for years or haven’t even slept in the same room, which is even harder; others put the child between the two of them in bed or on the TV, and in the end there are as many answers as the number of pairs.

Why did you want to talk about heartbreak?

We’re actually talking about heartbreak and the beginning of a new love because one ends and another begins, and love goes on forever. And you talk because you see so many couples around you who have been stuck together over the years, you wonder how they stay together from the outside, especially when they argue in front of you and you don’t understand why they don’t break up. And when the love ended and the couple refused to accept it, I started thinking about writing a novel about it.

Is it still so hard to talk about these feelings?

More. In fact, there are people I know who, because of the routine, because of the kids, who were very close again, and stayed together for many years because of the mortgage but stayed together. Sometimes the mortgage takes longer than the double. And it’s a very recurring topic but people don’t talk about it, nobody assumes it’s wrong and they have to put up with it, nobody says it. And I thought there were couples that could be in that moment, and a novel that talks about that might spark interest. And the truth is, it’s the novel that gets the most views the fastest, where I tell people their own stories.

From the comments on Facebook, it seems that her book has helped some couples. It’s like a personal development book.

(laughs) The truth is, a lot of people have thought about putting their batteries together so that it doesn’t end up like in the book.

The signs are known, but it’s easier to pretend you don’t see them.

Yes, it’s much more comfortable, or normal, to think that it happens to all couples, when it shouldn’t be. I thought it might help some couples who were at that point not to go there, and this is happening. I think this is the book most often given to exes to help them understand what happened, which is another option (laughs). I also got a very nice comment from a 16-year-old girl who said she understood why her parents broke up with the book.

The book is accompanied by a playlist on Spotify.

I’ve already done it in other books. I like to share the music I listen to while writing with readers, who usually refer to what I wrote.

Thousands of novels have been written about love and heartbreak. Why should you read yours?

Thanks to the people who wrote to me, it’s a novel that tells what happened, that idealizes nothing, absolutely nothing. It is real and it is and we are all there. This is pure reality, not the typical love where everything is beautiful and has a happy ending.

Good response for such a bestselling author?

The best at the moment, the best starter in a novel, the most feedback owner. I didn’t think about it, but of course it’s a universal theme because everyone is in a relationship or has been at some point.

What will follow this novel?

I haven’t thought about it right now because I’ve been on a long promotion for a few months, maybe until the summer, and I’m not planning to do anything. The good thing is I never know what to write next, and the publisher gives me some freedom to write whatever I want. And I don’t know if it will be a teen novel or a more adult novel. No problem.

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