Geography of an Adultery, A Novel

Dissecting a midlife affair, this perceptive, slyly comical debut explores how the spaces that limit our movements can be more exciting than the person we think we want.Ema and Paul are lovers. Like so many others before them, they met through work. Both are married with children, and they arrange hurried meetings away from prying eyes. Pauls car, a corner of Emas house, a hotel roomBut their relationship soon suffers from this too-restricted sphere, and Ema decides to put them both in danger, at the risk of losing everything.Cleverly attaching itself to the locations where passion plays outwhether domestic or professional, safe or transgressiveGeography of an Adultery casts a radical eye on anticipation and desire. With her deceptively cool, clinically precise style, Agns Riva unravels the inner workings of a private life.