By Margaret Mazzantini, John Cullen
Known as to the health center while his fifteen-year-old daughter, Angela, is injured in a almost certainly deadly twist of fate, a well-liked physician sits and waits, silently confessing the affair he had the 12 months Angela was once born. As Timoteo's story starts off, he's using to the seashore condominium the place his appealing, comprehensive spouse, Elsa, is ready. vehicle hassle forces him to make a detour right into a dingy suburb, the place he meets Italia--unattractive, unpolished, working-class--who awakens part of him he scarcely acknowledges. disillusioned together with his strong existence, he seizes the opportunity to behave with out results, and their savage first come upon spirals into an inexplicable obsession. Returning many times to Italia's dim hovel, he unearths himself confronted with a call: a lifetime of ardour with Italia, or a lifetime of convenience and predictability with Elsa. As Angela's lifestyles hangs within the stability, Timoteo's personal existence flashes prior to his eyes, this time obvious during the lens of the only time he really lived.
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Everybody in the outfit did. Even the officers. It was something to do, I guess. ' She moved slightly, rubbing her breast against his upper arm. Kelly settled down to a steady cruising speed of eighteen knots as he worked his way out of Baltimore harbor. The Italian freighter was the only merchant ship in view, and the seas were flat, with one-foot ripples. He kept to the main shipping channel all the way out into the Chesapeake Bay. ' she asked as they turned south. 'Yeah. There's a fridge in the kitchenette - it's in the-' 'I saw it.
It's from one of the places I've been,' he said. ' She understood. ' Kelly nodded matter-of-factly. They were out of the yacht basin now, and he advanced the throttles yet again. ' 'Nothing to talk to a lady about,' Kelly replied, looking around from a half-standing position. ' she asked. It caught him short, but he was getting used to it by now. He'd also found that talking to a girl, no matter what the subject, was something that he needed to do. For the first time he answered her smile with one of his own.
That' was a thunderstorm, a towering mass of cumulonimbus clouds that reached eight or ten miles skyward. 'Looks like we're going to get some rain,' he told her as he took the beer from her hand. ' 'Well, not here, it doesn't,' Kelly replied, looking around the boat to make sure that there was no loose gear. Below, he knew, everything was in its proper place, because it always was, ennui or not. Then he switched on his marine radio. He caught a weather forecast at once, one that ended with the usual warning.