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. Unfortunately, this novel’s constrained Geneva setting lacks expansiveness, and what is personal quickly becomes plodding. ( The Fifth Mountain) or a young shepherd ( The Alchemist) traveling widely in pursuit of treasure. Adultery perfectly illustrates the faint line between madness and. He has won 115 international prizes and awards and in 2007 was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace. Coehlo’s best work is personal and expansive, whether it concerns a Jewish prophet in the ninth century B.C.E. Paulo Coelho’s books have sold more than 225 million copies worldwide and he is the most translated living author. Paul, King Solomon, Frankenstein, and Jekyll and Hyde. Her emotional nosedive includes an outrageous plan to win him over, and she ponderously dwells on John Calvin, St. 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. 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. Adultery, the provocative new novel by Paulo Coelho, best-selling author of The Alchemist and Eleven Minutes, explores the question of what it means to live life fully and happily, finding the balance between life's routine and the desire for something new. Coelho’s disappointing new novel suffers from its lead character’s navel-gazing. By Paulo Coelho 272 pages Knopf Available at Amazon Barnes & Noble Indiebound 'I WAKE up and perform the usual ritualsbrushing my teeth, getting dressed for work, going into the children's bedroom to wake them up, making breakfast for everyone, smiling, and saying how good life is.

Adultery by Paulo Coelho