Dont Move

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.