Original Title: Non Ti Muovere
Author: Margaret Mazzantini
Translator: Rina Han
Publisher: Munhakdongne
366 pages | 223*152mm
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About This Book
A rainy day, a slippery street. A skidding car collides with a motor
scooter ridden by Angela, a fifteen-year-old girl. Gravely injured,
she’s brought to the hospital where her father, Timoteo, is a surgeon.
As his daughter lies near death, the handsome, cultivated, eminently
respectable Timoteo unpacks a sordid burden of sin and guilt he has long
borne in silence.
Fraught with sexual obsession, degradation, and devotion, his confession
is the tale of a man who for his whole life has been "afraid to
live"—with one passionate exception. Silently addressing Angela, Timoteo
bares his soul, and the events of the year before her birth open like a
wound.
As Timoteo’s tale begins, he’s driving from the city to the beach house
where his beautiful, accomplished wife, Elsa, is waiting for him. Car
trouble forces him to make a detour into a dingy suburb, and there he
meets Italia—unbeautiful, unpolished, working-class—who awakens a part
of him he scarcely recognizes. Disenchanted with his stable life, he
seizes the chance to act without consequences, and what ensues is
startling and savage. Is it rape? Or something mutual, animal,
completely new to him? Returning again and again to Italia’s dim hovel,
he finds himself faced with a choice: a life of passion with Italia, or
a life of comfort and predictability with Elsa.
"Suddenly, driven by an absurd rebellious impulse, you look for the
bones of the man you would have liked to be," Timoteo explains to his
unconscious daughter, as if asking forgiveness for preferring the
passionate life he glimpsed so briefly.
In vivid, intense, masterful prose, Margaret Mazzantini has crafted a
tale that electrifies from start to finish, drawing us deep down into
the darkness of primal passion.
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