This book left me breathless. It gripped me from the first page and didn’t 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 wonder about life and myself.This book is not an easy read. It requires guts to stick to its brutal honesty, fierce language and vulnerable characters. This book is a life lesson which I am starting to learn - live my life with untamed passion; give in to unconditional love in its most unexpected form; open my mind; follow my heart; do what I think is right and not what others think; be kind to others and myself; embrace life and its challenges. This book teaches me to live. Maybe that’s why I am so reluctant to put it down. But it’s time to let go and start my own story, weave its plot with kindness and passion; I already have a wonderful set of characters awaiting me.Good luck. Enjoy. Absorb or get absorbed. You won’t regret it. The only thing you will regret is that the book is finished. Wow... This is one of those books that grab you and never let you go! It's beautiful and fascinating, but schocking and awfully tragic at the same time. Reading about the devastation and siege of Sarajevo, that wonderful and unique town, back in 1990s tortured me throughout the book, yet I kept reading and I couldn't stop. If anyone has ever thought a war might be justified, they will change their opinion after reading this book. There is nothing more tragic and more wrong than a war-torn country with hundreds of thousands of former brothers and sisters killing and tormenting each other for no other reason but politics and twisted ideas of a bunch of lunatics. Margret Mazzantini managed to portray this absurdity in a wonderfully realistic yet poetic way. The characters are realistic and well-developed, love stories are beautiful without being melodramatic and the town of Sarajevo is the real hero of the book - it managed to heal, forgive if not forget and it stands as a symbol of all the other towns and people that were destroyed or fatally wounded in that tragic and absurd war. This is a book you keep thinking about long after you finish reading it. It's highly recommendable, but you need to be in the right mood for it.
What do You think about Venuto Al Mondo (2008)?
struggente, emozionante e coinvolgente. Non si può restarne distaccati.
—fudgemonsterr
Difficult to read of the violence of that was that horrible few years!
—Kiara
Много, много добра книга! Разтърсваща!
—Tameisha
Ha pienamente soddisfatto le mie aspettative
—saintlorien
