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Strange Affections
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9788190384001
Publisher: Subtlewords Press
Published: Oct 1 2026
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.48 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Aadrian Peralta does not feel. Not in the way that counts. He understands emotion the way a cartographer understands terrain. For decades he has found people whose passion runs at a frequency he cannot produce himself, positioned himself close enough to feel the warmth, and moved on when it faded.
Rose Ohen is different. A refugee artist who stopped painting at seventeen and built her life around the stopping, she is the first person whose work reaches him through the distance he keeps. So he does what he has always done. He creates the conditions. A treehouse in the Black Forest. A broken window. Paint and brushes left where she'd find them. He waits to see what returns.
What returns is everything she buried. What he doesn't anticipate is what it costs her. Or what it costs him.
Strange Affections is told in five voices across two generations. An Italian mother who taught her son that feeling has coordinates, a childhood friend who chose a hundred Da Vincis over being one, a woman painting landscapes with no people in them, and a girl who nodded once in a garden and never quite left it.
A novel about passion, guilt, and the precise distance between understanding everything and feeling nothing.
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