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OverviewCalled to the hospital when his fifteen-year-old daughter, Angela, is injured in a potentially fatal accident, a prominent surgeon sits and waits, silently confessing the affair he had the year Angela was born. As Timoteo’s tale begins, he’s driving to the beach house where his beautiful, accomplished wife, Elsa, is waiting. Car trouble forces him to make a detour into a dingy suburb, where he meets Italia–unattractive, unpolished, working-class–who awakens a part of him he scarcely recognizes. Disenchanted with his stable life, he seizes the chance to act without consequences, and their savage first encounter spirals into an inexplicable obsession. Returning again and again to Italia’s dim hovel, he finds himself faced with a choice: a life of passion with Italia, or a life of comfort and predictability with Elsa. As Angela's life hangs in the balance, Timoteo's own life flashes before his eyes, this time seen through the lens of the one time he truly lived. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Margaret Mazzantini , John CullenPublisher: Random House USA Inc Imprint: Random House Inc Dimensions: Width: 13.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 20.10cm Weight: 0.291kg ISBN: 9781400034666ISBN 10: 1400034663 Pages: 368 Publication Date: 12 July 2005 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Language: English & Italian Table of ContentsReviewsBeautiful. . . . The splintered, humanizing observations that constantly animate this novel . . . are exhilarating -- The New York Times Book Review <br> Gripping. . . . It unfolds with the whispered, urgent secrecy of the confessional. The writing is terse, taut and very graphic--like a succession of crystal-clear stills from a dramatic film. -- The Daily Telegraph <br> Irresistible. Reading Don't Move is like opening the hospital room door to find a tiger pacing in the corridor: there's no looking away, no turning back; nothing is more important than what happens next. --Valerie Martin, author of Property Author InformationMargaret Mazzantini was born in Ireland and lives in Italy with her husband, the director Sergio Castellitto. Don't Move won Italy's most prestigious literary prize, the Premio Strega; it is the author's second novel. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |