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    Adultery: A novel

    Written by Paulo Coelho

    Narrated by Susan Denaker

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    About this audiobook

    I want to change. I need to change. I'm gradually losing touch with myself.

    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.


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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateAug 19, 2014
    ISBN9780553546309
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    Adultery: A novel
    Author

    Paulo Coelho

    One of the most influential writers of our time, Paulo Coelho is the author of thirty international bestsellers, including The Alchemist, Warrior of the Light, Brida, Veronika Decides to Die, and Eleven Minutes. He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters and a United Nations Messenger of Peace. Paulo is the recipient of 115 international prizes and awards, among them, the Chevalier de l'Ordre National de la Légion d'Honneur (Legion of Honor). Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1947, he soon discovered his vocation for writing. He worked as a director, theater actor, songwriter, and journalist. In 1986, a special meeting led him to make the pilgrimage to Saint James Compostela (in Spain). The Road to Santiago was not only a common pilgrimage but a turning point in his existence. A year later, he wrote The Pilgrimage, an autobiographical novel that is considered the beginning of his literary career. He lives in Geneva, Switzerland.

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    • 3/5
      A woman is bored with her life, though it seems perfect on the surface. She doesn’t really believe that depression is something that can be cured by medicine, but tries to change her way of thinking. When that doesn’t work, she starts changing her way of living. She reconnects with an old boyfriend who is now a politician, buys drugs from a man on the street, and starts slacking at her job as a journalist. Coelho’s descriptions of depression were spot on and really drew me in. Overall I felt like the story was lacking some emotion, which makes no sense I know, talking about depression. The main character didn’t have emotion because she was depressed, but there was something lacking in the story that didn’t keep me as engaged as I thought I’d be.
    • 5/5
      A book about love, relationships, adultery and finding yourself again! Worth to be read, and definitely worth to be kept in your shelves and be a constant reminder for whenever you feel lost in life.
    • 1/5
      Nothing ever happened
      He must have written the word “love” over a thousand times
      By far his worst work ever!
    • 5/5
      Amazing! Definitely makes you rethink life, purpose and love!
    • 4/5
      My first Coelho book and it was so intriguing. I couldn't put it down. I enjoyed the way he interpreted a different view. Great book.
    • 2/5
      Ok book, not exactly my type of book. I read The Alchemist and thought there might be some of that type of writing, but a little disappointed...
    • 5/5
      It was a great experience I lived with this book
      The way of telling the story was amazing
      I highly recommend it
    • 2/5
      A story of a woman who has everything but is still unhappy and trying to search for happiness. The first half was mainstream explanation of the woman and the setting and her adultery with her ex boyfriend. Towards the end, I find Coelho preaching too much about love. I had to skip the final part because it was too boring. Not Coelho's best.

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    • 3/5
      Adultery by Paulo Coelho is not among his best books but it is quite readable and an interesting story. The protagonist, a woman, has a full life. Her husband is rich, she has children and a job as a professional but something in her life is lacking. She contacts a childhood boyfriend who is now a senior politician in Switzerland and they begin an affair which becomes quite complicated. Read the book to find out what happens and how it is resolved.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      This books chronicles a woman's search for meaning amidst the everyday routine of life. She meets an old high school boyfriend and begins an affair with him, despite a good marriage at home. At times you love the character, at times she seems to be just annoying.
    • 2/5
      The audio version was really the only reason I kept going with this---I just could not like the main character. I just could not relate to her description of her unhappiness, and her solution??? As another review mentioned, I, too, must be a prude---all of those seemingly ridiculously descriptive sexual episodes with her long-ago boyfriend? Maybe all of this makes more sense in the original language it was written in---and using Geneva, Switzerland as the location. Not really worth the listening.
    • 3/5
      The book disappoints because there seems to be no message in the book. It describes the thoughts of a rich, middle aged woman who finds excitement in adultery and wins the love of her husband by being adulteress. Such experiments could create just the opposite effect in real life. Her husband is shown to be too good to be true. The book becomes too explicit sometime, which disappoints Paulo Coehlo fans like me, who was greatly inspired by his book Alchemist. While, I always advice my children to read The Alchemist and many other books of Paulo. However, this one is to be kept away from them.
    • 1/5
      A beautiful woman in her thirties with a loving husband, a couple of good children, an affluent lifestyle in Geneva and a good job as a journalist is not feeling happy. During an interview with a politician who was once a boyfriend, she starts an affair. She is determined to improve somehow and embarks upon a search for happiness, consulting doctors and a shaman as well as trying drugs and continuing on with the very one-sided affair.Unfortunately, I found this woman totally unbelievable; her rich powerful husband likewise implausible and the politician rather unlikely. The story itself is pretty far-fetched.This was a work of fiction which read like a book that belongs on the self-help shelf. Where was the subtlety?
    • 2/5
      I must be a prude. I just couldn't condone the protagonist of this story indulging in an adulterous relationship to rediscover the meaning of her life. I am a huge Paulo Coelho fan and so had very high expectations. This book was a let down to say the least.
    • 3/5
      A deeply unsettling novel different from most of Paulo Coelho's other novels. A woman loses herself and finds herself again through an adulterous affair, through the love of her husband and through a spiritual experience. this is either a one star novel 3-star novel or five star novel depending upon where you are coming from.
    • 2/5
      Although I feel utmost respect for Paulo Coelho, I have never viewed him as a great writer or a profound philosopher, as a lot of people do because of his ability to put tough topics into generic and understandable words that are appealing to masses. I have enjoyed his books when I was 16 years old, and I have read Zahir in my early twenties and found that the book really spoke to me. But Adultery has got to be the poorest author's work yet. What I did like about it is its structure, flow-of-consciousness narration, matter-of-fact, no-nonsense behaviour of the protagonist, and the beginning and the end of the book. What I did not like was generic, "deep" thoughts, that are supposed to be viewed as profound, but in essence are completely meaningless. Love isn't just a feeling; it's an art.These leaves were once part of a tree, a tree that has now gone to ground to prepare for season of rest. Did the tree have any consideration for the green cloak that covered it, fed it, and enabled it to breathe?These phrases remind me of my writing class in middle school where I was given topics like "I am me" or "Loneliness and solitude" to ponder about in 500 words. And my 13-year-old past self was writing things much like Paulo Coelho.I did sympathize with the "middle-aged" thirty-year-old woman - depression is not something that is to be taken lightly - and her approach of not wanting to be medicated and talking about her feelings with incompetent and negligent therapists. But I am quite sure that any husband would prefer his wife medicated than cheating on him.All in all, Adultery definitely was not a read for me, but if you are a loyal Paulo Coelho reader, you should definitely pick it up!
    • 3/5
      Overall this book was pretty boring. The protagonist is pretty one-dimensional, it is not written very well (which may be the translation), and the resolution is quick and lackluster. It has moments when it is good. The ending has a good message, I loved it, but the story isn't really needed to reinforce it. You probably could read the last 10 pages and get what you need out of this book. The book is written as a first person narrative, which is great because then you get to see the inner conflict. One problem is that the author or editor decided that quotation marks won't be used when the protagonist is thinking. Therefore there are many times when you have to reread it to see if the protagonist is speaking out loud or having inner dialogue during a conversation.
    • 1/5
      Ugh!
    • 2/5
      I received this book for free through Goodreads First Reads.

      I'm so torn...I wanted to love the book, I really did! There’s no doubt that Coelho is a fantastic writer, after all he does write poetry. However, I think this novel was a bit of a struggle. Was this done on purpose because the main character, Linda, a thirty-something journalist/mother/wife is struggling? Linda is going through her own crisis (albeit self inflicted). From the outside looking in, she has everything - she is married to a man who adores her (the "husband" as he's referred to in the whole book), a job where she is respected, money, a fabulous home, yet is not happy and feels that she is in a downward spiral.

      Having interviewed a writer who talked about the meaning of life, Linda becomes manic in her efforts to find her own purpose and self-diagnosis. She treats what she thinks may be depression with a relationship (if you can classify it as such) with an old flame, Jacob, who is now a politician and known for his infidelity. Linda thinks this new found fling is just what she needs because it is giving her purpose and is thrilling because it is so out of character. Speaking of out of character, I think what she was planning to do to Jacob's wife was far fetched.

      Another problem is that none of the characters were particularly likeable, especially Linda and Jacob. I thought this book would have been more interesting had it been penned from Jacob's wife.

      The location seems to be of importance, it is mentioned several times and almost becomes like a character. Perhaps symbolic of the put-together, perfect world of Linda?

      The novel is entirely written in first person and I think this did a disservice to the story. There was so much more to tell, I felt that Coelho only scratched the surface.
    • 5/5
      so good
    • 2/5
      Given Coelho's ability to make profound almost any topic this was the hardest of his that I've read. The subject matter was good, but the main character felt petty and I had a difficult time connecting with her. If this is your first Coelho book I would urge you to look through many of his other works before coming to a decision about him as an author.
    • 3/5
      clever too often slimq
    • 4/5
      excelente libro
    • 3/5
      好無聊、、、
    • 4/5
      Coelho tackles lots of philosophical and psychological questions as is his way and which I like, however at times I felt he was preaching with this one - that it was the author talking not the thoughts of the protagonist, a woman. I do think he may have misinterpreted women in places. Some parts really bothered me, others seemed profound. Glad I read it to the end.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      Materiell reiche Genferin mit perfekter Familie spürt innere Leere und sucht zunächst den Kick durch Untreue zu einem alten mächtigen Schulkameraden und versucht seine Ehegattin mit Kokain zu vernichten. Ihr Zustand wird aber immer schlimmer von Selbsthaß geplagt. Dann trifft sie wg. beruflicher Reportage auf einen Schamanen und kommt der Liebe langsam auf die Spur.....mit Happy End und vielen Sexszenen.
    • 4/5
      Potential readers of Adultery who prejudge it negatively based upon its title alone are going to miss out on a very fine literary novel - one that strives to put the reader inside the head of a young woman on the brink of doing something that has the potential to ruin her life. Yes, just as its title implies, Paulo Coelho’s latest novel is about sex outside the bounds of marriage (and, yes, the sex acts are described in rather explicit detail), but the main character’s adulterous acts are just one part of her story.Linda, barely into her thirties, already seems to have it all: two great children, a wealthy husband who truly loves her, and a newspaper job that she mostly enjoys. Linda, however, is already becoming bored with it all, and she is terrified at the thought that life has no more surprises in store for her. But her depression has her equally terrified that everything in her life could suddenly change. As she puts it in a moment of self-reflection:“…I feel afraid of everything: life, death, love or the lack of it; the fact that all novelties quickly become habits; the feeling that I’m wasting the best years of my life in a pattern that will be repeated over and over until I die; and sheer panic at facing the unknown, however exciting and adventurous that might be.”When chance throws Linda into contact with a man as unhappy as she is, she aggressively jumps at the chance to live out her fantasies. And, for a while, it works; she is happier with her life and believes that she has made the right choice. It is only when her fling becomes an addiction, and exposure seems more and more likely, that Linda begins to understand the immense risk she is taking.Admittedly, Adultery is only one woman’s story, but it does a superb job of exploring one motivation for, or cause of, of adulterous affairs between people who have everything to lose and so little to gain from the flings. Paulo Coelho does not justify adultery in this novel – far from it. Instead, he explores it, and shows just how destructive it can be. Margaret Jull Costa and Zoe Perry translated Adultery from the Portuguese, and they did such a fine job with the translation that, not once, did I feel that I was reading from a translated manuscript. Adultery is neither a piece of soft porn nor a romance novel; what it is, is a powerful look deep into the soul of a young woman in trouble, and I recommend it.
    • 3/5
      I could not relate to Linda, the main character – not because she was unhappy, we all experience unhappy times, but because her solution was so extreme. A degrading affair? Yes, I thought it was a bit raw and unfulfilling. This was not a romance; this man was using her. And then she would have these long, soul-searching conversations with her husband. Really? Too often I felt like I was listening to man’s view of a women having a mid-life crisis.I kept listening partly because the audio was good and I was hoping it would get better, but in the end I was left underwhelmed.Audio production:Susan Denaker narrates the story using quiet, even tones and steady pacing. The story is written in the first person and she did a nice job capturing the flat, depressed sounding Linda.
    • 4/5
      Coelho’s clear, direct narrative portrays characters on a spiritual journey. At first the novel comes across as a story of a woman who has it all simply whining about her boring life. It is easy to judge the protagonist, a married woman in her thirties with two children, as self-indulgent. She insists that she loves her husband and children while carrying on an extramarital affair. She appears to go from being depressed to becoming unhinged. At the conclusion of the novel, however, the reader can look back at the story and see a spiritual journey through the dark night of the soul. The main character goes from struggling with a sense of meaningless to experiencing the reason for life. It is not an easy journey for the reader to witness without being annoyed and judgmental. Is that because we can see our own inner struggles reflected in those of the character?