Adultery : a novel / Paulo Coelho ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa and Zoë Perry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coelho, Paulo.

Contributor:

Costa, Margaret Jull, translator.

Perry, Zoë, translator.

Roberta S. & Leonard S. Leibman, W'53 Fund.

Standardized Title:

Adultério. English

Language:

English

Portuguese

Subjects (All):

Married women--Fiction.

Married women.

Politicians--Fiction.

Politicians.

Adultery--Fiction.

Adultery.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

255 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.

Language Note:

Translated from Portuguese.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

"Originally published in Brazil as Adultério by Sextante, Rio de Janeiro, in 2012"--Title page verso.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Roberta S. & Leonard S. Leibman, W'53 Fund.

ISBN:

9781101874080

1101874082

OCLC:

879662337

Publisher Number:

99959468837