Devotion, Marco Missiroli
Devotion, Marco Missiroli
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Devotion
Now a Netflix limited series

Author: Marco Missiroli, Alex Valente

Narrator: Emma Carter

Unabridged: 8 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/19/2021

Synopsis

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES

'Erotically charged... this intimate and ultimately moving analysis of desire and the long-term legacy of betrayal deserves to be read: completely absorbing'
DAILY MAIL

'An absolute scorcher'
EVENING STANDARD

'A gripping novel exploring the tensions in an apparently idyllic marriage'
FINANCIAL TIMES

'Devotion thrilled me (I read it in one sitting), made me think, and moved me deeply. It manages to be as deep as any literature, and as irresistible as any gossip'
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

'Missiroli cuts right through to the darkness of our inner lives'
ROBERTO SAVIANO

Carlo and Margherita: a happily married couple in their mid-thirties. 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 her physiotherapist, Andrea.
Love, with its unassuming power, ultimately pulls them from the brink, but after eight years of repressed desires and the birth of a son, when the past resurfaces in the form of books sent anonymously, will love be enough to save them?

About Marco Missiroli

Marco Missiroli's first novel SENZA CODA won the Campiello Opera Prima (the Italian equivalent of the Costa First Book award). Published to great acclaim, DEVOTION (previously entitled FIDELITY) was a no. 1 bestseller in Italy, was shortlisted for the Premio Strega (the Italian Booker) and was made into a hit Netflix limited series.Born in Rimini, on the Adriatic coast, Marco now lives in Milan.

Reviews

Goodreads review by piperitapitta

Il malinteso Come in un libro scritto male, lui s'era ucciso per Natale Quindi fra Mazzantini e un film francese riuscito male, ora sta Missiroli. E ora che lo so, che il malinteso è stato chiarito, almeno il nostro, ne starò alla larga. O forse leggerò Bianco, per capire cosa ne è stato di un esordio......more

Goodreads review by Patrizia

Insipido.......more

Goodreads review by Nood-Lesse

La nostalgia si porta dietro la tenerezza La copertina era una maschera in negativo, gli occhi scoperti, una lama di sole sotto le scapole, l’asciugamano legato sopra il seno. Era scattata in una stanza d’albergo con le tapparelle parzialmente abbassate? La copertina mi piaceva. Il titolo anche. Quan......more

Goodreads review by Marcello

(1) Houellebecq e Missiroli sono i due autori che aspettavo di più. Insomma, a febbraio sto già tranquillo per tutto il 2019. (2) Missiroli lo attendevo non tanto perché Atti Osceni mi avesse sbalordito, ma perché raggiunta la popolarità ha deciso di prendersi il suo tempo, tirarsi fuori dagli schemi......more

Quotes

Fidelity thrilled me (I read it in one sitting), made me think, and moved me deeply. It manages to be as deep as any literature, and as irresistible as any gossip. It is a brilliant work by a brilliant writer. Jonathan Safran Foer

The book about infidelity that has shaken up Italy. The Times

Missiroli's erotically charged novel is currently being made into a Netflix series, but this intimate and ultimately moving analysis of desire and the long-term legacy of betrayal deserves to be read - moving seamlessly between perspectives, we're brought up close to the lives of its sympathetically imagined characters in a way that's completely absorbing. Daily Mail

An absolute scorcher... Clever structured with characters criss-crossing through one another's lives and the streets of Milan, with the second half of the book taking place nine years later, Fidelity teems with pain and pleasure, blood, sweat, and semen... Its descriptions of gory fight scenes between both dogs and men pulse with a kind of brutal machismo I'm not sure you'd find in an English novel today... Read Fidelity before the end of the year. Books are almost always better than their TV adaptations. Evening Standard

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 must-read... Marco Missiroli, with intelligence and empathy, considers how and why such people might find themselves wandering beyond the boundaries of promises they have made... This subtle novel has been lauded as a revealing study in marital infidelity, but it also moves beyond the theme of fidelity in traditional marriage to explore different kinds of sexual fidelity. And it touches on more abstract notions of loyalty and betrayal, including the idea of faithfulness to a family, an idea, a place, or a sense of one's true self. Sydney Morning Herald

A writer of pure excellence. Emmanuel Carrère

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

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