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Twice Born

Margaret Mazzantini

Hardcover | Pages: 464 pages

Rating: 4.31 | 5288 Users | 498 Reviews

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Original Title:	Venuto al mondo
ISBN:	0670022683 (ISBN13: 9780670022687)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Premio Campiello (2009), Premio Alassio Centolibri - Un autore per l'Europa (2009)

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This international bestseller is a sweeping portrait of motherhood, loss, and redemption in war-torn Sarajevo. Filled with memories of the four-year siege of Sarajevo, Gemma reluctantly boards a flight from her native Rome to that war-scarred city with her sixteen-year-old son, Pietro. She hopes to teach her son about the city of his birth and about Diego, the father he never knew. Once there Gemma is caught between the present and the past, reliving her love affair with Diego, their determination to start a family, and their deep connection to Sarajevo even as the threat of war loomed. In this haunting and sophisticated novel, Mazzantini masterfully probes the startling emotional territory of what makes a family-particularly what makes a mother. As the fate of Sarajevo converges with Gemma's all-consuming desire to have a child we see how far she is driven, in a stunning revelation that is both heartbreaking and cathartic. Brought to life by an unforgettable cast of characters, Twice Born is a tale of the acts of brutality and generosity that war can inspire. A blockbuster bestseller in Mazzantini's native Italy, it has taken Europe by storm and will soon be published around the world.

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Title	:	Twice Born
Author	:	Margaret Mazzantini
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 464 pages
Published	:	May 12th 2011 by Viking Adult (first published November 25th 2008)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction

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The story of a marriage, of a war, of love. But not a love story by any conventional definition of the term. Gemma and Diego are a mismatched Italian couple who meet in Sarajevo and are drawn back to that city even as the siege is beginning. The story moves fluidly through time: the present as Gemma takes her son Pietro to Sarajevo to see the city of his birth, and the past as the full story unfolds. Most than once I almost gave up on the book, as I sensed events unfolding that I didn't want to

This book left me breathless. It gripped me from the first page and didnt let go until the very last page. It crawled under my skin, penetrated my mind; I breathed it, lived it, dreamt it. It crossed my path at the right time, when I started experiencing personal growth and rethinking and re-evaluating my life, beliefs. This book was like an unexpected blow to my head that knocked me senseless...or maybe knocked some sense into me. It crept inside me, turned me inside out, leaving me raw with

Wow! By page 3, this book grabbed me. Mazzantini wields her skill in well-crafted strokes. It is already, one of the books that I am both anxious and reluctant to continue reading. I want very much to get back inside the story--yet if I do, the story will end sooner.This book kept evolving, but what kept me going back to it was Mazzantini's skill with words and phrases. By page 100s the story had devolved into yeah-I-was-fucked-up-happily-ever-after story.By page 200s I have gotten the hang of

now this is such a disgrace of the taste, the logic, the literature and the history.

A haunting, breathtaking drama set against the backdrop of the siege of Sarajevo, this book will stay with me for a long time. I had to keep reminding myself that this was not a memoir, because although translated from Italian and told in a beautiful, although sometimes overly poetical tone it is still very believable. The plot is very well developed and has some unexpected twists that left me almost wanting to reread the whole book to have an even better understanding of the characters. This is

One of the most heartbreaking and powerful books I've read in ages. The two themes of the book, the siege of Sarajevo and motherhood, are both intensely and beautifully handled. Anyone who can read Italian should read it, though I'm sure it will be translated and eventually the movie...

Ouf. I bought this book about three years ago, after finishing Elena Ferrante's My Beautiful Friend and the three remaining books in the series. I must have stumbled upon a list of "If you like Ferrante..." This book shares a few things with Ferrante (Italy, themes of identity and motherhood), but it's more complex and I find myself preferring Mazzantini to Ferrante (never thought she could be outdone, but...) It's one of those books with many lives - you think will be about one thing, then you