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Maria Cristina Palma leads a perfect life - on the face of it, then. She is beautiful, rich, famous, the wife of the Italian prime minister and the world revolves around her. Then at a party she meets a friend of her late brother and receives a video that changes everything. A secret from her past catches up with her, something she has hidden deep away and never thought about again.

Niccolò Ammaniti sharply dissects her mind, exploring her fears, obsessions and sneaky desires in a novel that combines unparalleled fantasy, psychological realism, tragedy and seduction. Intimate Life leaves you pondering unconscious drives, repressed memories and a distorted reality (Paperback)