Venuto Al Mondo by Margaret Mazzantini

A middle-aged Italian woman returns to Sarajevo with her teenage son for a photography exhibition, retracing a consuming love affair with a war photographer and the years of longing for a child that were upended by the Bosnian war. As she navigates the city’s scars and her own memories, she confronts the devastating, long-buried truth about her son’s origins, reckoning with guilt, loss, and the high price of love and survival.

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