Ti rubo la vita (I am stealing your life) by Cinzia Leone

This novel will definitely be my favourite novel for 2019, even though the year hasn't finished yet. It's the first time I discover @cinzialeoneautrice and I'm in love with her writing style. I'm going to search for more of her books. What a great challenge to read this novel of more than 600 pages. In spite of its length and weight I devoured it in a few days. Three different stories about 3 different women (Miriam, Giuditta and Esther ) whose life story is somehow related at the end. In the first story we follow Miriam, a Muslim woman whose husband decides in 1936 to steal the name and life of a Hebrew business man. In the second story we follow Giuditta, a Hebrew girl who loves only swimming and whose life changes in the Second World War when she is thrown out of school and she does nothing but escaping and hiding from the Nazis. In the third story we follow Esther half Christian, half Hebrew who accepts an arranged marriage to a mysterious business man. All these stories build one novel in which we come to reflect about the importance of history, identity, religion and tolerance.