num_pages: 368
description: Called to the hospital when his fifteen-year-old daughter, Angela, is injured in a potentially fatal accident, a prominent surgeon sits and waits, silently confessing the affair he had the year Angela was born. As Timoteo’s tale begins, he’s driving to the beach house where his beautiful, accomplished wife, Elsa, is waiting. Car trouble forces him to make a detour into a dingy suburb, where he meets Italia–unattractive, 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 their savage first encounter spirals into an inexplicable obsession. 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. As Angela's life hangs in the balance, Timoteo's own life flashes before his eyes, this time seen through the lens of the one time he truly lived.
language: English
title: Don't Move
titlecomplete: Don't Move
genres: Literature, Literary Fiction, Italian Literature, Novels, 21st Century, Italy, Roman, Fiction, Contemporary, Romance
ratings_count: 8108
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Premio Strega, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Premio Grinzane Cavour
category: Narrativa Italiana, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Prix Littéraire Européen - Madeleine Zepter, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Premio Rapallo, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Dublin Literary Award
publisher: Anchor