Adultery

BURNING LOVE

ONE OF THE 10 LOVE STORIES TO GET HOOKED ON ACCORDING TO MARIE CLAIRE

The Strega Prize winner, compared by critics to Fernando Aramburu and Roberto Bolaño for his monumental The Catholic School, "explores the nature of desire" (La Repubblica)

After a virtual love at first sight, Erri and Clementina flee their respective tedious married lives to spend a weekend together on an island. They take an enormous risk, but the passion that drives them is uncontrollable, and the happiness that seems to be within reach is undeniable. An Adultery gives us a glimpse into the complete story of this fleeting affair in this extraordinary study of desire.
A vibrant, sensual, and brutally honest story that, built on a lie, appeals to all of us: those who have experienced a clandestine relationship, those who have rejected it, and those who have yearned for it in their deepest selves.

"A novel of demanding and measured writing along with a sensibility very much of our times."
Luis Alonso Girgado, El Correo Gallego

"Albinati knows what he wants. [...] A flawlessly crafted adultery, nothing archetypal, nothing verbose: [...] a narration of a simplicity that destroys, of a restraint that seems illogical for what it tells, and yet injects into the reader's memory the shadow of an unexpected balance and that strict language that remains forever in the mouth of the one who loses."
Sonia Fides, Heraldo de Aragón

"In this vibrant and sensual text, Albinati rails against the perversity of the morality of renunciation demanded by marriage, that institution that Montaigne described as a paradoxical fortress where those outside want to enter and those inside want to leave."
El Diario Montañés - Sotileza

"Albinati's protagonist leaves the crowded shore of Madame Bovary or Effi Briest to explore calmer waters already traversed by female characters like those in Alice Munro's The Life of Women."
Barbara Stefanelli, Il Corriere della Sera

"Albinati gets to the heart of the matter: passion and love can coexist, or not. [...] A fascinating book."
Ornella Donna, Sololibri

"Ultimately, adultery in this book is merely the mirror of an unavoidable basic dissatisfaction: how many parts of himself is one willing to suffocate to share existence with another person if one conforms to being what one set out to be at a certain point in life?"
RAI

"Inspired by David Vogel, Albinati explores the nature of desire on an island that seems like that of Michelangelo Antonioni's L'Avventura."
Mara Accettura, La Repubblica

About The Catholic School:
"A prose quality that surpasses many of the usual limits in contemporary literature. [...] A novel that is savored and hurts; a title that is, at the same time, complex and exciting; a reading that overwhelms and accompanies; a sublime exercise in masculine nakedness."
Raquel Jiménez, Zenda

"An elephantine novel."
Antonio Lozano, La Vanguardia

"An attempt to understand the world and find a way to remain in it [...] as Bolaño did with his immense 2666 or Knausgård in My Struggle."
Ángeles López, La Razón