Adele

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I actually thought Richard’s motivations were more interesting than Adele’s, she’s treated him like complete shit and he doesn’t even seem to be all that arsed about her sexually yet he wants to keep her by his side and change her into someone she never will be. Through Elias, we will find out about how many years ago, he paid a prostitute for her services and fell in love. Plus there's another dimension to it: In her native Morocco, adultery is a criminal offense, and Slimani, who lives in France, did have the book published there, knowing full well that it would cause a scandal. Of special relevance to readers with an interest in LGBTQ biographies and memoirs…Very strongly recommended for community and academic library American Biography/Memoir collections. Her life is preoccupied with dozens of affairs and one-night stands and then the two halves of her life collide and it becomes impossible for her to continue as she has been doing.

One evening, en route to their annual holiday destination, they run out of fuel in a remote location. doesn’t know exactly what she wants but she knows what she doesn’t want and I think this will resonate with a lot of readers. Her husband, the doctor loves her, but also wants to control her financially and in terms of movement space after the fir The latter quickly turned into a bestseller with over 450,000 copies printed within a year even before the book was awarded the Prix Goncourt. Adèle is, seemingly, the contented wife of a surgeon, raising a son that she adores while excelling at her job as a journalist.A quick read but an exhilarating one written in pared back prose: transgressive, subversive, likely to divide readers, and yes, enigmatic and provocative rather than transparent. And even if I did, I'm not sure that would be a useful lens through which to examine this book: for one thing, I doubt whether Strauss-Kahn was really a sex addict, rather than just a sleazy politician comfortable with abusing his power; and for another thing, I think in the DSK case his maleness was pretty essential to the power dynamics involved, which means that transposing the genders misses half the point. But the author sounds her voice loudly in this book, and her sense of self is captured throughout the pages.

Because her life requires so many lies, it has to be carefully organized—an exhausting activity that occupies her entire brain, that gnaws at her. However, Slimani does a great job of examining the negative effects of Adele’s addiction without judgment. The one thing I did find really intriguing, though, was the very end, the last sentence in particular.

Twist is so well written that the reader admires the capability of Adele Bertei to present her true story in such a novel way….