This is startling, stomach-punching stuff. Intelligent, beautifully written, raw and candid. Basically an eminent Italian father waits for his daughter to wake from an operation on head injuries sustained when knocked off her scooter. This is the start. You imagine her life or death will be your emotional path through this book, wrong.
It is the father’s duplicity, guilt and strange passion that he pours out in a confessional story that completely takes over the tragedy we are witnessing. Wow. It won prizes in Italy.
Comparison: Bernhard Schlink, Colum McCann, William Nicholson (adult).
Similar this month: Glen Duncan, Andrew Greig.
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 falls off her scooter and is rushed to the hospital in a coma. 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.
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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 falls off her scooter and is rushed to the hospital in a coma.
Don't Move features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, eBooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
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Don't Move was written by Margaret Mazzantini and published by Vintage
Don't Move has 263 pages
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