by Margaret Mazzantini (Author)
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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03 Mar 2005
ISBN 10: 0099462036
ISBN 13: 9780099462033
Book Overview: 'Enthralling, compelling and gripping' Mail on Sunday
Prizes: Shortlisted for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2006.