The First Love: Endless Yearning and Pain

By Arben Nestur Prifti

This novel is a work of historical and realistic fiction stretched in thirty-five years. The story of life and love of three main characters will take you from Elbasan, Albania, to the Central Park of New York City. Alexander, a university literature professor, falls in love with "the most beautiful girl in the city." The beautiful love relationship only lasted three months, but the magic of this love and his first girlfriend, remained forever in his heart and mind, bringing a lot of suffering, pain, desperation, and depression, finalized in suicide after thirty-one years of unbearable yearning for his first love. Even though he found another incredible love, another extraordinary woman, with whom he married and had two children, he couldn't take the first love off his mind. Inspired by his first love-with that girl always in his mind as his muse-Alexander wrote the novel "The First Love." His book was published only after his death and became a bestseller, proving the words he had told his wife that most of the authors become famous after their death. Two beautiful ladies in their early fifties; two widows from the same man-Margarita, the brunette of his first love, and Teuta, the blond of his second love and his wife-meet and chat in Central Park. While their children from the same father, meet each other for the first time and attend the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. This love story will stimulate your mind, inspire your soul, and satisfy your longings, reminding you of your first love. You will weep all the time the same way as its author and characters do. You will feel the truthfulness of their heartbreak, and your mind will start to think of your life and your love stories, finding yourself in between the fiction and the reality of this novel.This is the legend of everybody's first love that continues eternally until the end of life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0578693135
• ISBN13: 9780578693132
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Arben Prifti
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"