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Don't Move

Margaret Mazzantini · 2001 CE · Novel · Italian · Contemporary

While his teenage daughter lies in an operating theatre, a surgeon addresses her in his head and confesses a past she knows nothing of. It is the story of his affair with a poor, plain woman from the outskirts, an affair that began in violence. Won the Strega Prize and was filmed in 2004 by the author's husband, Sergio Castellitto.

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