Fidelity (aka Devotion)

Fidelity (aka Devotion)
Marco Missiroli, Alex Valente
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Paperback
h196 x 128mm - 256pg
3 Mar 2022 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781474613361
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THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER' Missiroli cuts right through to the darkness of our inner lives' Roberto Saviano ' You' ll feel like taking refuge in the pages of this book and never leaving its confines' La StampaCarlo, a part-time professor of creative writing, and Margherita, an architect-turned-real estate-agent: a happily married couple in their mid-thirties, perfectly attuned to each other' s restlessness. They are in love, but they also harbour desires that stray beyond the confines of their bedroom: Carlo longs for the quiet beauty of one of his students, Sofia; Margherita fantasises about the strong hands of her physiotherapist, Andrea. The dream of a new flat, suspended between the old cobbled streets of Milan and the modern skyline cutting the horizon, might just help Carlo and Margherita bring down the wall Sofia and Andrea have built between them. But it is love, with its unassuming power, which ultimately pulls them from the brink, aided by Margherita' s mother Anna, the couple' s anchor and lighthouse - a wise, proud seamstress hiding her own disappointments. But after eight years of repressed desires and the birth of a son, when the past resurfaces in the form of books sent anonymously, not even Anna might be strong enough to save them. Winner of the Premio Strega Giovani - Shortlisted for the Premio Strega
A gripping novel exploring the tensions in an apparently idyllic marriage, where a couple in their thirties is tested by their attraction to others, and by their own accumulation of desires and disappointments. * Financial Times * A writer of pure excellence. * Emmanuel Carrere * Missiroli cuts right through to the darkness of our inner lives. * Roberto Saviano * Powerful, delicate, exquisite. * Claudio Magris * Masterful: Missiroli' s words are fire. . . The ending - chilling - is just as good as that of Joyce' s The Dead. * Corriere della Sera * You' ll feel like taking refuge in the pages of this book and never leaving its confines. * La Stampa * With all-encompassing writing, Marco Missiroli opens the rooms of his characters and the streets of Milan, the thoughts and the concealed desires, makes dialogue and silences reverberate with the spontaneity of great narrators. * Il Foglio *
Marco Missiroli was born in Rimini and lives in Milan. His first novel SENZA CODA (2005) won the Campiello Opera Prima (the Italian equivalent of the Costa First Book award). His novel ATTI OSCENI IN LUOGO PRIVATO (2015) became a runaway bestseller in Italy, selling over 150,000 copies. FIDELITY was a #1 bestseller in Italy and is currently being made into a Netflix limited series. Born in Rimini, on the Adriatic coast, Marco now lives in Milan.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781474613361
Published: 3 Mar 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Format: Paperback
Height: 196mm
Width: 128mm
Spine: 22mm
Weight: 227g
Pages: 256

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