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Adultery
255 pages
A confessional, spiritually tinged exploration of existential boredom and the chaotic awakening of illicit passion.
What it feels like
Reading this book feels like sitting with a friend who is confessing her deepest, most transgressive secrets in the pursuit of spiritual truth. The narrative moves at a steady, introspective pace, steeped in a restless and melancholic mood that perfectly captures the suffocating weight of a seemingly perfect life. The prose is characteristically simple yet heavily laden with philosophical aphorisms, guiding the reader through a messy, emotionally fraught journey of existential ennui and midlife crisis. It is less about the mechanics of an affair and more about the spiritual awakening that transgression can provoke. This is a story for readers who crave earnest, spiritually tinged fiction about dismantling societal expectations to rediscover authentic, albeit chaotic, passion.
- Mood
- melancholic
- restless
- angsty
- searching
- Tone
- confessional
- philosophical
- earnest
- introspective
- Pace
- steady
- Themes
- existential ennui · midlife crisis · spiritual awakening · the illusion of perfection · nature of love
- The writing
- Simple, direct, and heavily laden with philosophical aphorisms and spiritual musings.
- The arc
- Moves from suffocating apathy and existential dread through chaotic, transgressive passion to a philosophical acceptance of love and self.
- Who it's for
- Readers who crave introspective, spiritually tinged fiction about women dismantling their seemingly perfect lives to find authentic passion.
Content notes
- infidelity
- depression
- sexual content
About the 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" --
Description from Open Library.
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