Don't Move

Timoteo: career as a brain surgeon, beautiful, clever wife, luxurious Roman apartment, villa by the sea. He seems the epitome of success and glamour. But then his daughter falls off her scooter. 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 affair with a woman from a working-class suburb of Rome who, from the moment he gives into instinct and rapes her, to the end of their relationship when she lies under his knife, undermines everything he ever thought he knew about himself. Mazzantini's mesmerising portrait of a supremely controlled man losing control is set to be the most gripping book of 2004. 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.

Literature & Fiction

MARGARET MAZZANTINI

Contemporary

Chatto&Windus

Twice Born

An internationally bestselling, acutely moving story set amidst the atrocities of the Bosnian war, Twice Born masterfully plumbs the depths of love, grief, and the all-consuming power of motherhood. Gemma hasn't been back to Sarajevo in sixteen years. She returns to teach her son Pietro about the city of his birth and the father he never knew. But the visit brings with it impassioned memories of her love affair with Pietro's father, their determination to have a child whatever the cost, and their deep connection to the city even as war threatened to destroy it. 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, and of the bonds of family fused in times of crisis.

Oneworld Publications

Gemma hasn't been back to Sarajevo in sixteen years. She returns to teach her son Pietro about the city of his birth and the father he never knew. But the visit brings with it impassioned memories of her love affair with Pietro's father, their determination to have a child whatever the cost, and their deep connection to the city even as war threatened to destroy it.  An internationally bestselling, acutely moving story set amidst the atrocities of the Bosnian war, Twice Born masterfully plumbs the depths of love, grief, and the all-consuming power of motherhood. Brought to life by an unforgettable cast of characters, it is a tale of the acts of brutality and generosity that war can inspire, and of the bonds of family fused in times of crisis.

An internationally bestselling, acutely moving story set amidst the atrocities of the Bosnian war, Twice Born masterfully plumbs the depths of love, grief, and the all-consuming power of motherhood. Gemma hasn't been back to Sarajevo in sixteen years. She returns to teach her son Pietro about the city of his birth and the father he never knew. But the visit brings with it impassioned memories of her love affair with Pietro's father, their determination to have a child whatever the cost, and their deep connection to the city even as war threatened to destroy it. For fans of Jodi Picoult, Twice Born is a tale of the acts of brutality and generosity that war can inspire, and of the bonds of family fused in times of crisis.

Oneworld

Am Ende der Straße

Viktoria von Schirach

Geh Nicht Fort

Weltbild

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Wydawnictwo Sonia Draga

Venuto Al Mondo

Venuto al mondo

Mondadori

Una mattina Gemma lascia a terra la sua vita ordinaria e sale su un aereo, trascinandosi dietro un figlio, Pietro, un ragazzo di sedici anni. Destinazione Sarajevo, città-confine tra Occidente e Oriente, ferita da un passato ancora vicino.

"Avremo mai il coraggio di essere noi stessi?" si chiedono i protagonisti di questo romanzo. Due ragazzi, due uomini, due destini. Uno eclettico e inquietto, l'altro sofferto e carnale. Una identità frammentata da ricomporre, come le tessere di un mosaico lanciato nel vuoto. Un legame assoluto che s'impone, violento e creativo, insieme al sollevarsi della propria natura. Un filo d'acciaio teso sul precipizio di una intera esistenza. I due protagonisti si allontanano, crescono geograficamente distanti, stabiliscono nuovi legami, ma il bisogno dell'altro resiste in quel primitivo abbandono che li riporta a se stessi. Nel luogo dove hanno imparato l'amore. Un luogo fragile e virile, tragico come il rifiuto, ambizioso come il desiderio. L'iniziazione sentimentale di Guido e Costantino attraversa le stagioni della vita l'infanzia, l'adolescenza, il ratto dell'età adulta. Mettono a repentaglio tutto, ogni altro affetto, ogni sicurezza conquistata, la stessa incolumità personale. Ogni fase della vita rende più struggente la nostalgia per l'età dello splendore che i due protagonisti, guerrieri con la lancia spezzata, attraversano insieme. Un romanzo che cambia forma come cambia forma l'amore, un viaggio attraverso i molti modi della letteratura, un caleidoscopio di suggestioni che attraversa l'archeologia e la contemporaneità. E alla fine sappiamo che ognuno di noi può essere soltanto quello che è. E che il vero splendore è la nostra singola, sofferta, diversità.

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Don't Move

Twice Born

Twice Born

Twice Born

Am Ende der Straße

Geh Nicht Fort

Zatrzymaj sie

Venuto al mondo

Venuto Al Mondo

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