illicit love affair

However, peace is precarious: All it takes for tensions to flare and violence to erupt is one wrong move, one false allegiance — or one illicit love affair.

There is Princess, a serial dater and owner of a trendy art gallery; Zaza, a glamorous housewife having an illicit love affair; and Nandi, a high-powered lawyer who gets cold feet on the cusp of her wedding.

Though hardly lacking drama — an illicit love affair; a deadly illness; several murders — “Savage State” proceeds with a strange sort of calm, a stately deliberation that belies the urgency of the family’s flight.

The mountain range above the caves is named after Nang Non, a mythical princess who killed herself over an illicit love affair, and whose sleeping form the mountain is said to resemble.

How, coming from the land of prenups and no-fault divorce, can a novelist impart new bite to the subject of a married person’s illicit love affair?