by Margaret Mazzantini
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.
Genres: Psychological Thriller, Contemporary Fiction, Adult Fiction
Tropes: Obsessive Love, Obsession, Class Difference, Secrets and Revelations
ISBN: 9780307425591
370 pages
Published: 2007-12-18
Publisher: Anchor