Don't Move - Hardcover

Mazzantini, Margaret

3.8

8,444 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0701176776 ISBN 13: 9780701176778

Publisher: Chatto & Windus, 2004

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Timoteo: career as a brain surgeon, beautiful, clever wife, luxurious Roman apartment, villa by the sea. He seems the epitome of success and glamour. But then his daughter falls off her scooter. A colleague operates on her head injuries 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 affair with a woman from a working-class suburb of Rome who, from the moment he gives into instinct and rapes her, to the end of their relationship when she lies under his knife, undermines everything he ever thought he knew about himself. Mazzantini's mesmerising portrait of a supremely controlled man losing control is set to be the most gripping book of 2004. Highly atmospheric, subtly disturbing, it keeps you on the edge of your seat throughout. In the end, the suspense of wondering whether Timoteo's daughter will live is overtaken by the question of deciding just how much pity her guilty father deserves. (2003-09-09)

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Review:

"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)

Book Description:

A chilling and brilliant novel that has already taken readers by storm. Selling over 500,000 hardbacks in Italy alone, it will now be published around the world. 'It makes you realise,' said the critic of La Repubblica, 'that the great tradition of Italian literature, of Svevo and Moravia, is, thank God, not dead.' (2003-09-09)

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