"Fascinating . . . Adèle has glanced at the covenant of modern womanhood--the idea that you can have it all or should at least die trying--and detonated it." --The New York Times Book Review "[A] fierce, uncanny thunderbolt of a book." --
Entertainment Weekly From the bestselling author of
The Perfect Nanny--one of the 10 Best Books of the Year of
The New York Times Book Review--as well as
Sex and Lies and
In the Country of Others, her prizewinning novel about a sex-addicted woman in Paris
She wants only one thing: to be wanted. Adèle appears to have the perfect life: She is a successful journalist in Paris who lives in a beautiful apartment with her surgeon husband and their young son. But underneath the surface, she is bored--and consumed by an insatiable need for sex.
Driven less by pleasure than compulsion, Adèle organizes her day around her extramarital affairs, arriving late to work and lying to her husband about where she's been, until she becomes ensnared in a trap of her own making. Suspenseful, erotic, and electrically charged,
Adèle is a captivating exploration of addiction, sexuality, and one woman's quest to feel alive.
Author: Leila Slimani
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 01/15/2019
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780143132189
Review Citation(s): Shelf Awareness 02/01/2019
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2018
Publishers Weekly 10/29/2018
Booklist 11/15/2018 pg. 24
About the Author
Leila Slimani is the bestselling author of The Perfect Nanny, one of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year, for which she became the first Moroccan woman to win France's most prestigious literary prize, the Goncourt. She won the La Mamounia Prize for Adèle. A journalist and frequent commentator on women's and human rights, she is French president Emmanuel Macron's personal representative for the promotion of the French language and culture and was ranked #2 on Vanity Fair France's annual list of the Fifty Most Influential French People in the World. Born in Rabat, Morocco, in 1981, she now lives in Paris with her French husband and their two young children.
