{"product_id":"adele","title":"Adèle","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"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.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[A] fierce, uncanny thunderbolt of a book.\" --\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Perfect Nanny\u003c\/i\u003e--one of the 10 Best Books of the Year of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e--as well as \u003ci\u003eSex and Lies \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e In the Country of Others, \u003c\/i\u003e her prizewinning novel about a sex-addicted woman in Paris \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShe wants only one thing: to be wanted.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAdèle 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDriven 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, \u003ci\u003eAdèle\u003c\/i\u003e is a captivating exploration of addiction, sexuality, and one woman's quest to feel alive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeila Slimani\u003c\/b\u003e is the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Perfect Nanny, \u003c\/i\u003e one of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e'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\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e She won the La Mamounia Prize for \u003ci\u003eAdèle\u003c\/i\u003e. 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 \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50318167408914,"sku":"9780143132189","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f1e5fce3-db8d-42ae-aae7-d1ef92fa8fd4.jpg?v=1727549771","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/adele","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}