Summary
Leïla Slimani: In the Garden of Monsters
Adèle is a successful journalist, the wife of an even more successful doctor and at first glance she has a perfect life: a child she loves, a husband who adores her and a wide circle of friends. But her insatiable desire for sex takes her from partner to partner, from adventure to adventure. Can the heroine get out of her addiction and how will her husband react when one day he inevitably finds out everything?
Adèle just wants to be a doll, but we don't know whose garden she will end up in. Adèle is not only Emma Bovary, nowadays she is also Girl O, she is the perfect imprint of our secularized and alienated world. In the Garden of Monsters is an incredibly precise and daring erotic story, an exploration of addiction, sexuality and a woman's need to feel alive.
Leïla Slimani, the author of the world bestseller Lullaby, in her first novel In the Garden of Monsters goes into the heart of darkness of modern society, into the question of faith and unbelief, into the question of boredom in an age when we have everything available.
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