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Adultery

  • 255 pages · about 4 hours
  • First published 2014

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1 About this book

"A woman around her thirties begins to question the routine and predictability of her days. In everybody's eyes, she has a perfect life: a solid and stable marriage, a loving husband, sweet and well-behaved children and a job as a journalist she can't complain about.

However, she can no longer bear the necessary effort to fake happiness when all she feels in life is an enormous apathy. All that changes when she encounters an ex-boyfriend from her adolescence. Jacob is now a successful politician and, during an interview, he ends up arousing something in her she hadn't felt for a long time: passion.

  • Politicians
  • Happiness
  • Romance, contemporary
  • Married women
  • Adultery
  • Inventors
  • Mental Depression
  • Emotions

2 About Paulo Coelho

Born 1947

Paulo Coelho de Souza ( KWEL-yoo, koo-EL-yoo, -⁠yoh, Portuguese:; born 24 August 1947) is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist. He has been a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters since 2002. His 1988 novel The Alchemist is an international best-seller.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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