he book Adultery portrays the story of an independent woman Linda, in her 30s, who has an almost perfect life; a content and stable marriage, a caring husband, sweet little kids and a rewarding journalism career. Through the regular everyday life, she starts to question the dullness and boredom of her passing days. She tends to be dissatisfied with her life, until she meets her high-school boyfriend, Jacob, who is a successful politician now.
With him, she revives the zeal and craze that were previously missing in her life. They get involved into an affair which she knows can lead her to difficult circumstance, yet, she finds the affair to be really exciting. With this transformation, she is standing at a life-altering turn of her life.
The book was originally written in Portuguese, Coelho’s native language. The English edition was published in August 2014.
Product Details
- Paperback: 287 pages
- Publisher: Random House India (13 August 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 8184006098
- ISBN-13: 978-8184006094
- Product Dimensions: 29 x 20 x 3 cm
About the Author
Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1947, Paulo Coelho worked as a composer, a journalist and as an author and director for the theatre before dedicating his life to books. His books have been published in 168 countries and translated into 80 languages. His biggest success, The Alchemist, is considered the highest selling book written by a Brazilian.
He was elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters in 2002 and in 2007 was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace. He has been married to Christina Oiticica since 1979.
Review
tory line of any of the books of the writer is simple- a journey. This is a story of journey of a person who decides NOT to fake happiness and instead live life as per choice. The chosen path is full of social stigma, taboos, acceptances and rejections of choices and yes, it is considered as dangerous in conventional social norms and relationships. The novel is able to beautifully capture pleasure and pain of such path, which is more in the inner world of the person than at physical level. It is based on the background of s society and polity, which has elements of similarity with any other society and polity like fear of being caught in adulterous relationship, artificial and extremely self conscious behaviour of budding and established politicians, etc. I enjoyed this and I am sure you will also enjoy this. --Dwijendra Kashyap on Aug 18, 2014
it helps one to guide oneself through the darkest passage of passion. its not only a gripping journey but also an enlightening one. --Sayani Biswas on Nov 23, 2014
I have not yet finished it, but I can say that it is a well written book and will make you think.. I have read several books from this author and have never been disappointed.. inface I have even gifted this book to a few friends.. --Aditya Raj on 15 Jan 2015Rent & Security Return Pollicy
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