The Notebook (novel)
The Notebook is the first novel by Nicholas Sparks, which appeared in 1996 under the English title The Notebook by Warner Books in New York.
It tells the love story of Noah and Allie.
Content
From the war returned home, Noah Taylor Calhoun buys, born in 1915, one of the largest ancient country houses in New Bern (North Carolina) and gets down to the renovation. In the newspaper Raleigher 1946 appears an article about the successful repair. Allison Nelson, called Allie, born in 1917, gets the newspaper into the hands and remembers their first love. Allie wants her fiancé, the successful because industrious, Raleigher attorney Lon Hammond, soon married. But before that she is looking to her childhood sweetheart, living alone Noah. In 1932 he had been the first man in her life. The love broke on the class distinction. Ever since Allie had slept with no other - not even with the busy, Lon, who is unable to really understand that. Now - arrived at Noah - Allie learns that he has made his small fortune to go to war with hard work and invested it in the country house. Even Allie talks from the past fourteen years. The talented painter no longer paints. It turns out that Allie's mother had embezzled letters after falling out of Noah. And her Allie had not even been sent. For Allie Noah is a poet, although he only reads verses - from Whitman, Thomas, Tennyson and Browning. From Allie asked what he considers to be the best of their common summer 1932, Noah responds: "Everything ." At any moment he could not remember. Both fall in love again with each other. While Allie is neglected by the aspiring Lon, she hears from Noah's mouth encouragement: Allie to paint again. On the stormy night of love after fourteen long years the disillusionment follows. Lon breaks free for a trial, in his judgment in Raleigh and travels to New Bern. Allie's mother is the future son- in warning before, and brings the lovers equal to the intercepted letters. You will be forgiven by the daughter. Noah asks Allie to stay with him, but this goes to Lon in her New Bern Hotel.
After almost 49 years of marriage, Allie asks her husband Noah: " Who are you? What are you doing here " and screams at him :" Do not come too close to me " Allie suffers from Alzheimer's disease!. For three years now, the couple lives in Creekside Hospice. Just before Noah zunagelte its beautiful old country house from 1772 forever, Allie asked her poet Noah to write down the history of the common years. It was Noah's "Diary ," that eponymous " notebook ", which is the subject of the novel. In the fight against forgetting Noah reads at the bedside of his Allie before it. In this marriage five children were born. One child died. Allie established himself as an internationally successful painter.
Not only Allies days are numbered, with Noah it comes inexorably to an end. Him plagues the arthritis in his hands so that he can no longer work in the bodyshop with his " claws ". In addition, he suffers from prostate cancer. After recovering from a stroke he brings Although the strength to go on living on, can not and must not in the only part of the way remote room of his Allie to her - as always - read from the diary and encourage the patient. On 49th anniversary, the slowly convalescing still drags Noah to Allie - and the miracle happens: Allies feared confusion remains off. Once again recognizes the beloved 's lover.
Filming
- 2004 The Notebook