Novels
- Don’t Move (2004)
- Twice Born (2011)
- Morning Sea (2015)
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Margaret Mazzantini Books Overview
Don’t Move
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. 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, 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.
Twice Born
This international bestseller is a sweeping portrait of motherhood, loss, and redemption in war torn Sarajevo. Filled with memories of the four year siege of Sarajevo, Gemma reluctantly boards a flight from her native Rome to that war scarred city with her sixteen year old son, Pietro. She hopes to teach her son about the city of his birth and about Diego, the father he never knew. Once there Gemma is caught between the present and the past, reliving her love affair with Diego, their determination to start a family, and their deep connection to Sarajevo even as the threat of war loomed. In this haunting and sophisticated novel, Mazzantini masterfully probes the startling emotional territory of what makes a family particularly what makes a mother. As the fate of Sarajevo converges with Gemma’s all consuming desire to have a child we see how far she is driven, in a stunning revelation that is both heartbreaking and cathartic. Brought to life by an unforgettable cast of characters, Twice Born is a tale of the acts of brutality and generosity that war can inspire. A blockbuster bestseller in Mazzantini’s native Italy, it has taken Europe by storm and will soon be published around the world.
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