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I segreti dell'amore. Una favola tenera e illuminante

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Quando il professor Cormoran - un bizzarro scienziato che sembra aver scoperto il segreto dell'amore, condensandolo in una pillola - scompare misteriosamente con gli stupefacenti risultati della sua ricerca, Hector, giovane psichiatra che tutti i giorni ha a che fare con "malati d'amore", viene incaricato da una misteriosa multinazionale farmaceutica di mettersi sulle sue tracce. Costretto ad allontanarsi dalla dolce e amata Clara, la sua fidanzata, Hector si imbarca in una ricerca che si trasforma ben presto in un'autentica avventura. Tra guide misteriose e spietati persecutori, grandi hotel di Shanghai e sperduti villaggi, tra milizie mercenarie e popolazioni indigene, massaggiatrici cambogiane, spie e farabutti, Hector insegue soprattutto il sogno di trovare una "cura" per le pene d'amore, che, per un motivo o per l'altro, afflliggono lui stesso come tutti coloro che lo circondano. Rintracciato finalmente il misterioso professore, Hector finisce per prendere lui stesso la strabiliante pillola e... coglie l'occasione per un'illuminante riflessione sull'amore, il tradimento, la passione. Tutte cose che lo aiuteranno, forse, a salvare il suo rapporto con Clara.

285 pages, Hardcover

Published August 31, 2006

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François Lelord

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François Lelord, born 22 June 1953 in Paris is a French psychiatrist and author. He studied medicine and psychology. After getting his doctoral degree in 1985, he was a post-doctorate researcher with Robert Liberman at the University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles. He then worked as an attending physician at Hôpital Necker (which is affiliated with Descartes University) in Paris for two years.
In 1989 he opened up his own practice which he closed down in 1996 to work as an advisor on stress and job satisfaction for several companies. Having co-written various self-help books, he was commissioned to produce another but found himself instead writing a novel, Hector and the Search for Happiness, the first in a series of adventures featuring a psychiatrist protagonist. In 2004, Lelord went to work for an NGO in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. He now lives in Thailand with his wife and son. The film of Hector and the Search for Happiness is released in UK cinemas in August 2014, starring Simon Pegg and Rosamund Pike.

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