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

About the author

Margaret Mazzantini

Margaret Mazzantini was born in Dublin and later moved to Rome. She trained as an actress but left the stage to concentrate on writing. Don't Move is her second novel and won the prestigious Strega Prize.

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
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