![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile Allie, 29, sees the house in the newspaper and decides to pay him a visit. He finishes restoring an antebellum-style house, after his father's death. Noah, 31, returns from World War II to his town of New Bern, North Carolina. The novel opens with Noah Calhoun, an old man, reading to a woman in a nursing home. In The Notebook, he tried to express the long romantic love of that couple. In interviews, Sparks said he was inspired to write the novel by the grandparents of his wife, who had been married for more than 60 years when he met them. The Notebook was a hardcover best seller for more than a year. It was on The New York Times Best Seller list in its first week of release. ![]() In October 1995, Park secured a $1 million advance for the book from the Time Warner Book Group, and the novel was published in October 1996. Literary agent Theresa Park discovered Sparks by picking the book out of her agency's slush pile and reading it. He wrote it over a period of six months in 1994. It was the third written after The Passing and The Royal Murders, which he did not publish. This was Nicholas Sparks' first published novel. The Indian Bollywood film, Zindagi Tere Naam, starring Mithun Chakraborty, is also based on it. The novel was later adapted into a popular film of the same name, in 2004. The Notebook is a 1996 romantic novel by American novelist Nicholas Sparks, based on a true story. Wokini: A Lakota Journey to Happiness and Self-Understanding ![]()
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