About the book: 2012 / Margaret Mazzantini is a famous Italian writer, awarded the Strega Prize (the Italian equivalent of the Booker) and Grinzane Cavour for her novel Don’t Go. Without exaggeration, this world bestseller has been translated into thirty languages, and the total circulation of the book is close to one and a half million copies. For the first time in Russian, her new novel “Twice Born” (received the Campiello Prize in 2009). This is a romantic story superimposed on a tightly written thriller. The heroine of the story, Gemma, is given everything: beauty, intelligence, the ability to compassion, material well-being. But then one day, early in the morning, she and her sixteen-year-old son leave Rome. She needs to show her son the city where he was born and where his father, the talented Italian photographer Diego, died. This journey returns the heroine to her crazy youth, makes her relive impossible love, which happens only once in a lifetime, and even then not for everyone. Gemma once again plunges into the atmosphere of those troubled days when, among the ruins of Sarajevo, a city that found itself in the center of a senseless war, she touched the sacrament of birth. But are memories destined to wash away the pain and bitterness of betrayal? Mazzantini created an amazing novel-parable, a novel-life, where the rainbow and tragic colors of life are mixed. Actor and director Sergio Castellito (Margaret Mazzantini's husband) is finishing filming a film based on this book.