The End of Love: Sex and Desire in the Twenty-First Century

Told as a series of reflections on her personal experiences, this is a bold manifesto by a brilliant young mind on our contemporary understanding of romantic love and how the contradictions of inherited traditions and technology affect the way we build relationships. Born and raised in an Orthodox Jewish community in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tamara Tenenbaum approached the sexual and affective habits of the secular world like an anthropologist discovering the ways of life of an unknown civilization. Drawing from philosophy and feminist militancy, from conversations with friends and colleagues, and from an attempt to turn her own body and experience into a laboratory for both individual and collective reflection, Tenenbaum explores the challenges that young people today face at the start of their adult lives. Tenenbaum examines the multiple dimensions of affection, from the value of friendship to the culture of consent, passing through motherhood as a choice or an imperative, desired and abhorred singlehood, polyamory, open relationships, and the workings of dating apps. Timely and illuminating, The End of Love celebrates the creative destruction of romantic relationships as we know them, and advocates for the rise of a better, freer love.

About the Author :
Tamara Tenenbaum was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1989. She is a lecturer at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and teaches Creative Writing at the Universidad Nacional de las Artes, Argentina. She writes for Vice, La Nación, Infobae, Anfibia, and Orsai. In 2017 she published a collection of poems and in 2018 she was awarded the Premio Ficciones for her book Nadie vive tan cerca de nadie. Her first long-form essay, The End of Love has been published to great critical acclaim in Latin America, Spain, and Italy. Carolina Parodi studied Literary Translation and Interpretation at Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is a regular contributor and translator for various online platforms including Sounds and Colours. She is based in London where she works in publishing.

Review :
★ "Argentinian journalist Tenenbaum makes her English-language debut with an incisive essay collection that shrewdly dissects the cultural pressures and ideals shaping modern notions of sex and relationships... Blazing with insight and equally grounded in personal observation and Marxist-feminist theory, these essays interrogate in lucid and persuasive prose how much has really changed for women from the oppressive past to the supposedly enlightened present. It's a feast for the mind."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) "One of the most salient threads of Tenenbaum's book is a peculiar anxiety that many Millennial and Gen Z women are now wrestling with, as an indirect result of social movements that rocked the 20th century (and, later, #MeToo)...Tenenbaum's introspection leads to a thornier conclusion: Modern relationships, too, are fueled by unequal conditions that are seldom recognized."--The Atlantic "Tenenbaum's essay brings lucidity but also freshness to the body of readings advocating for greater liberation of women within the structure of patriarchal society."--Sounds and Colours "There are books that inquire, that make us think and ask ourselves questions, and there are books that are companions--this is one of the rare examples of books that do both things at the same time. The End of Love takes on many of the most disconcerting and complex problems of our intimate and everyday lives, and it does so with the perfect mix of modesty and ambition."--Revista Otra Parte "The last few years have brought with them a number of memorable reads on questions of intimacy, desire and power -- and The End of Love looks to be a compelling addition to that canon."--Inside Hook "Thanks to her lucid and pleasant perspective, Tenenbaum achieves her goal of transcending individuality."--El País