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  • Published: 1 June 2005
  • ISBN: 9780099462033
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $32.99
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Don't Move



'Enthralling, compelling and gripping' Mail on Sunday

Timoteo: high-flying career as a surgeon, beautiful wife, luxurious apartment, villa by the sea - he seems the epitome of success and glamour. But then his daughter has an accident and is rushed to the hospital in a coma. A colleague operates on her, and while the agonised Timoteo awaits the outcome, he holds the reader in the vice-like grip of his confession. For, beneath the veneer of his apparently charmed life, there is a story of squalor, degradation, deceit and strange passion. The story of a doomed love affair with a woman who, from the moment Timoteo meets her, undermines everything he thought he knew about himself.

Mazzantini's chilling portrait of a supremely self-assured man losing control has taken readers by storm across the world. Highly atmospheric, subtly disturbing, this is a powerful and extraordinary novel.

  • Published: 1 June 2005
  • ISBN: 9780099462033
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $32.99
Categories:

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Praise for Don't Move

Highly charged stuff-the writing is tense, taut and very graphic

Daily Telegraph

Like the ancient mariner, Timoteo's story grips you to the end

Daily Mail

A psychological study of passion, degradation and guilt...a powerful depiction of the struggle in human nature between the ephemeral quest for love and the quest for self-knowledge

Financial Times

A powerful, visceral and unforgettable story

Panorama

Exhilarating

New York Times