Summary
Marco Missiroli: Fidelity
Carlo and Margherita are in a happy and stable marriage, their relationship is a subtle network of love, trust, support and understanding. But when Carl's student, the self-effacing, talented and attractive Sofia, appears in their lives, suppressed desires and unfulfilled ambitions will be triggered, and mutual loyalty will be tested. The quiet strength of their connection, whose reliable support is Margherita's mother Anna, a wise, proud seamstress who hides her own disappointments, spreads in concentric circles on people more or less close to them in the stormy questioning of longings and failures, but also seems to hold together.
Marco Missiroli's international bestseller Fidelity is an emotional marriage novel set in the streets, buildings, homes of today Milan and who seeks an answer to the universal question: can we be true to ourselves without betraying the people we love?
"There are novels that seem to come from the future. Novels that seem to return to us, here and today, from a time in which many problems were finally solved, that is, returned to their lost, primordial naturalness. It is common to say of these novels that 'they make an era'... Fidelity is one of them. (...) Suffering in this novel it is similar to the misery in Céline: it liberates, it makes you want to live.” - Sandro Veronesi
"A striking novel that explores the tensions in a seemingly idyllic marriage, in which the layers of their own desires and disappointments tempt a couple in their thirties." – The Financial Times
“Powerful, delicate, exceptional.” - Claudio Magris
"Faithfulness manages to be both layered literature and irresistible gossip. It's a great work from a brilliant writer." - Jonathan Safran Foer
"Faithfulness uncompromisingly reveals the feelings of our time: what have we become, what are our struggles and freedoms? Missiroli cuts into the darkness of our inner lives." - Roberto Saviano
"You will feel as if you have taken refuge in the pages of this book and as if you will never leave them." - La Stampa – Corriere della Sera
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