Like a single day (novel)

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The first novel by Nicholas Sparks is like a single day and was published in 1996 by Warner Books in New York under the English title The Notebook .

The love story of Noah and Allie is told.

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1946

Returning from the war , Noah Taylor Calhoun, born in 1915, buys one of the largest venerable country houses in New Bern , North Carolina , and starts renovating it. In 1946 an article about the successful repair appeared in the Raleigher Zeitung. Allison Nelson, called Allie, born in 1917, gets her hands on the newspaper and remembers her first love. Allie wants to marry her fiancé, the successful and hardworking Raleigher lawyer Lon Hammond, soon. But first she seeks out her childhood sweetheart, Noah, who lives alone. In 1932 he was the first man in her life. Love broke because of the difference in class. Since then, Allie hadn't slept with anyone else - not even the busy Lon, who couldn't quite understand it. Now - arriving at Noah - Allie learns that he made his small fortune with hard work until the war and invested it in the country house. Allie also chats from the past fourteen years. The talented painter no longer paints. It turns out that Allie's mother withheld Noah's letters after the falling out. And Allie hadn't even sent hers. For Allie, Noah is a poet even though he only reads verse - by Whitman , Thomas , Tennyson, and Browning . Asked by Allie what he thought was the best of their summer together in 1932, Noah replied: “Everything.” He could remember any moment. Both fall in love again. While Allie is being neglected by the ambitious Lon, she hears encouragement from Noah: Allie should paint again. The stormy night of love after fourteen long years is followed by disillusionment. Lon clears a day of trial with his judge in Raleigh and travels to New Bern. Allie's mother warns the future son-in-law and brings the two lovers with the suppressed letters. The daughter forgives her. Noah asks Allie to stay with him, but she goes to Lon in her New Bern hotel.

1995

After almost 49 years of marriage, Allie asks husband Noah: “Who are you? What are you doing here? ”And yells at him:“ Don't get too close to me! ”Allie suffers from Alzheimer's disease . The couple has been living in the Creekside nursing home for three years. Just before Noah nailed up his beautiful old country house from 1772 forever, Allie asked her poet Noah to write down the story of their years together. The result was Noah's “Diary”, the eponymous “Notebook” that is the subject of the novel. In the fight against oblivion, Noah reads from it at his Allie's sick bed. Five children were born in this marriage. One child died. Allie established herself as an internationally successful painter.

Not only are Allie's days numbered, Noah is also coming to an inexorable end. Arthritis in his hands plagues him so that he can no longer work with his "claws". He also suffers from prostate cancer . After a stroke he has the strength to go on living, but he cannot and is not allowed to go to Allie's room, which is just a short distance away, to read her from the diary and to encourage the patient - as always. On the 49th wedding anniversary, the slowly convalescent Noah still drags himself to Allie - and the miracle happens: Allie's feared confusion does not materialize. Once again the beloved recognizes the beloved.

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  • Nicolas Sparks: Like a single day. Novel. From the American by Bettina Runge. Munich 1996, ISBN 3-453-13051-0 .

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  1. ↑ Sparks: Like a Single Day. 1996, p. 184.