Linda’s affair begins when she goes to interview a powerful politician, Jacob She’s a stereotype, bored with married life and lacking motivation. But Linda, of course, feels that something is missing – though hardly for any original reasons. Linda is married to a very rich man about her age who loves her and provides everything she could ask for. The material, the slight plot, and what little meaning there is could have been easily condensed into a longish short story.

She might have the heft to fill the shoes of a central character in a short story, which this novel resembles, but not because it’s short and powerful. She comes off like a minor character in a comedy of manners, but she’s serious. Who in fiction or in life introduces themselves like this? A “highly regarded journalist”? Throughout the book, Linda’s character and her journalism get no better. (thanks to my husband’s limitless generosity). Thirties, five-foot-eight, 150 pounds, and I wear the best clothes that money can buy She says in a manner that sounds gracious, even charming, then continues, “I’m in my Linda commits adultery, despite, by her own admission, being married to a loving and unbelievably understanding but unnamed husband. “a highly regarded journalist,” narrates the story of a happy but boring marriage. But unlike Manuscript Found in Accra, this volume has a storyline. Varying value, perpetuates quite a few more such clichés. Languages and have sold more than 165 million copies in more than 170 countries,Īccording to his publisher. He’s venerated by his fans and reviled by his critics, one of whom called Coelho’s previous novel Manuscript Found in Accra a “volume of ponderous clichés.”Ĭoelho’s latest novel, Adultery, the act itself the subject of countless stories of Have churned out a book every year or so. Hisīest known novel is The Alchemist published in 1988. Billed Into Silence: Money and the Miseducation of Womenīrazilian writer Paulo Coelho is one of the most popular writers in the world.

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