The message is simple ‘Our goal in world should be; learn to love’ which has been delivered through a somewhat self-reflection and journey of a
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woman. She at the start feels lonely, afraid that the things will change and more afraid that the things would remain the same’. She meets her ex or rather the love of her teenage- who is now a politician. The expected happens but there is no guilt. In a social gathering a dinner, she meets his wife and he meets her husband. And things fly off handle for her.
It’s a journey that you should take with her in the simplest of stories with minimal events to string it. Yet the void between is filled in the dialogue she has with herself. The power of self-reflection and self discover. Ultimately, she comes back to her life with her husband and children. But now having learnt how to love.
PAULO COEILHO: ADULTERY: RANDOM HOUSE INDIA. INR 299 PAGES 287.
