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Twin sisters divided by a choice. Two lives to rebuild. One single love able to bring them back together.
Twin sisters Ariele and Rebecca couldn’t be more different: one is shy and withdrawn, the other a rebel who fiercely defends her freedom. Except that Ariele possesses a gift her sister lacks: she has premonitory dreams. A unique gift but also a sentence that will not allow her to escape from the spread of Nazi hatred. Hatred that forces their mother Giuditta, a Jew, to take a terrible decision: leave Ariele in the care of a female friend and take Rebecca to Auschwitz with her, certain that her strength of character will save her. In the years that follow, having survived the horror of the concentration camps, Rebecca shuts her heart to the world. On the other hand, Ariele tries not to waste the opportunity she has been given by never pulling back. Not even when her sister, with whom she has been unable to rebuild a relationship, knocks at her door and asks her to look after her daughter, whom she is not even able to take into her arms. For both sisters, the pain of the past is still too deep, but perhaps the little girl can provide an opportunity for Ariele and Rebecca to reestablish a bond and repair the mechanism of their hearts, which have stopped at a time that no longer exists.
“A powerful, bold novel that punches the reader right in the stomach. Intense words […] that leads straight into the heart of the matter in plain, candid prose.”
Il Corriere della Sera
Elvia Grazi is one of the best-known and most loved journalists in women’s magazines. She has managed various Italian weekly newspapers, done extensive PR for huge international events and worked as a writer and presenter on various television programs. She has been publishing short stories and serialised novels in various weeklies for over thirty years. She made her debut as a novelist with Lasciami contare le stelle (Let Me Count the Stars, TEA, 2014).
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