The adulteress

Linda completely believes that her life is perfect. She has a wonderful job, a handsome husband who is infatuated with her, and two beautiful children. She arouses men's desire and women's envy. But despite this, she is enveloped by an indescribable boredom, and she feels she is on the edge of the abyss. Suddenly, amidst all this loss and noise, her former lover, who has become a prominent politician, appears in her life. She experiences with him an intimate and strange experience, embodying what she had forbidden herself even with her husband; an experience that upsets familiar equations and leads her to another world. With a magical touch, she restores things to their proper place. She trembles and, with great courage, faces what she has done, only to discover in the end that "love creates miracles and changes the features of the earth and the soul." So what is true love? And what is happiness? And does conscience become a tormentor? Many questions posed by Linda, the heroine of Paulo Coelho's new novel "The Whore," leaving us the burden of discovering their answers.