Posted by EPL patron and guest blogger, Irv S.
Linda is young, beautiful,
and wealthy. She has a loving husband, two delightful daughters, and a plum of
a job. She is also discontented. I never did grasp the reason for her
dissatisfaction but was engrossed by her attempts to put some life into her
existence. Paulo Coelho's Adultery is a detailed exploration of a brief
period of her life and a profound consideration of love, anxiety, and
redemption. The story is not compelling, the message is.
Coelho, an outstanding
writer, explores five states of the journalist's interviewee, various
stages of depression, and St. Paul's exposition of love (I Corinthians
13), quite a bit to cover in a brief novel. It was written in 2012 and
translated from the Portugese in 2014. The reader should be warned that
the first twenty percent of the book is a rather painful setup but the novel is
well worth the effort.
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