No joking with love - Nelly Alar

How can one surrender in 2013 to the temptation of marital infidelity? The question is not moral but narrative. In renewing this genre of novel, Nelly Alar plays the music of her novel on a very contemporary social mode. Juliet and Olivier are a young couple with their children, Maria and Johan. A couple who can spend more time buying a stroller than buying their own car! Their hobby is socialist, but the Green Party fascinates them. This choice allows the novelist to paint a very precise picture of the woman who succeeded in combining work and family, and at the same time of the new man who will not leave the novel honored. She had set an appointment for her husband to go to the cinema, but on the other end of the line, Olivier seemed to be crying. She asked, what’s wrong? Before hearing the answer, she felt something like a sting in the bottom of her stomach. She had the idea that Maria was dead. I have a story with a girl, a member of the Socialist Party and elected. A story that has been ongoing for three weeks, and now she wants me to leave you. And here, while we were talking on the phone, I told her I would go with her to the cinema. She had a seizure, and she left the phone, screaming, I don’t know what’s wrong with her, I don’t know what to do, I must go see her. He regained his calm and added, I won’t be able to go to the cinema… * The novel “No Joke with the Habbal” won the Interaliye Prize in 2013.