Adultery
A novel
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4.0 • 30 Ratings
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Publisher Description
#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the extraordinary author of the international bestselling sensation The Alchemist comes a provocative novel that explores the question of what it means to live life fully and happily.
"A compelling tale of existential angst, marital betrayal and sexual sin.” —The Chicago Tribune
I want to change. I need to change. I'm gradually losing touch with myself.
Adultery, the novel by Paulo Coelho, best-selling author of The Alchemist and Eleven Minutes, searches for the balance between life's routine and the desire for something new.
“Propulsive.... A compelling tale of existential angst, marital betrayal and sexual sin.” —The Chicago Tribune
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Coelho's disappointing new novel suffers from its lead character's navel-gazing. After an interview subject reveals his thoughts about living a passionate life to buttoned-up Linda, a 30-something journalist, mother, and wife to a loving, wealthy husband, she begins to believe her own life is empty. From there, she initiates an erotic affair with a high school boyfriend even after her first come-on leads him to suggest she enter marriage counseling. Her emotional nosedive includes an outrageous plan to win him over, and she ponderously dwells on John Calvin, St. Paul, King Solomon, Frankenstein, and Jekyll and Hyde. Coehlo's best work is personal and expansive, whether it concerns a Jewish prophet in the ninth century B.C.E. (The Fifth Mountain) or a young shepherd (The Alchemist) traveling widely in pursuit of treasure. Unfortunately, this novel's constrained Geneva setting lacks expansiveness, and what is personal quickly becomes plodding. For most of the story, Coelho abandons his beautifully spare, evocative prose in favor of overwrought sentences, returning to form only as the story nears its end.
Customer Reviews
Amazing novel
Thank you Paulo and the team. It was deep, emotional story that drives you between the human instant feelings in order to understand how female middle-age socially-important lady feel, think, and react.
I learnt alot from it
Thanks,
Hisham
Incredible!!!
This book was like reading an autobiography of my own life. Thank you for helping me understand my own emotions and putting into words what I myself could not explain. It gave me a glimpse of consequences I would have faced had I decided to go down the same path.
Very disappointing
If you are a fan of Coehlo, you'll find this style of writing very different and very disappointing in comparison to his other work. It reads like a bad Hollywood love film; predictable, unpoetic, far fetched, and lacking any real depth. I found it hard to believe that this book was authored by the same person who wrote the Alchemist. I do not recommend.