Save Her

The main characters in the novel are three: Mimo Vitaliani, Viola Orsini, and a mysterious statue. Mimo receives the worst cards from Fortune: poverty, loneliness, slave labor for a cruel and envious master sculptor. But Mimo has brilliant hands and... a very rebellious character! Viola, the heiress of an ancient and wealthy noble family, seems to get the maximum from fate, but she too longs to break free from the cage prepared for her, even if this cage is golden. Their meeting is an unbelievable coincidence and recognition at first sight, mutual attraction and struggle. Accomplices, rivals, enemies, best friends — sometimes coming closer, sometimes drifting apart for a long time, Mimo and Viola go through the madness of fascism, the trials of fame and wealth.
A novel-adventure, a changeable and vivid intertwining of human destinies into the historical tapestry.This book is very French ‒ masterly, clearly structured, precise down to the smallest detail ‒ and very Italian ‒ generous, excessive, carnival-like, grating, terrifying, pitiful
and wicked. Because of such a character, because of such an era. Because of such a life.
Alla Belyak, translator