ABOUT
THE BOOK

Timoteo, a high-flying surgeon with a beautiful wife, 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.
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.