Сердце под замком

V avguste 1978 goda s shestiletneĭ Aliche sluchilosʹ chudo, khoti͡a ona poni͡ala ėto ne srazu. Na poroge doma ee roditeleĭ poi͡avilasʹ ėlegantnai͡a, nemnozhko ėkst͡sentrichnai͡a khudozhnit͡sa Iren, davnym-davno uekhavshai͡a s Sit͡silii v Rim. I odin korotkiĭ razgovor vzrosloĭ zhenshchiny s shestiletneĭ devochkoĭ izmenil zhiznʹ obeikh.Spusti͡a dvenadt͡satʹ let Aliche uznaët, chto Iren pered smertʹi͡u sdelala eĭ best͡sennyĭ podarok - vozmozhnostʹ osushchestvitʹ detskui͡u mechtu statʹ aktrisoĭ, - i otpravli͡aetsi͡a v Rim. Kvartira, gde vitai͡ut prizraki proshlogo; dverʹ, davnym-davno zapertai͡a na kli͡uch; udivitelʹnye kartiny, mnogo let khranivshiesi͡a pod zamkom; dnevnik s povestʹi͡u o schastʹe i tragedii... Aliche beretsi͡a rassledovatʹ zagadochnui͡u istorii͡u li͡ubvi Iren - khudozhnit͡sy, mnogo let nazad brosivsheĭ zhivopisʹ, - i v svoem stranstvii naĭdet druzeĭ, perezhivet opasnye vstrechi i, vozmozhno, otkroet samu sebi͡a. A v finale eĭ i͡avitsi͡a otkrovenie, kotoroe perevernet ee zhiznʹ snova.Blesti͡ashchiĭ turet͡sko-italʹi͡anskiĭ kinematografist ("Okno naprotiv", "Prisutstvie velikolepii͡a", "Pristegnite remni"), avtor knizhnykh bestsellerov, vysoko t͡senimykh kritikami i li͡ubimykh publikoĭ, Ferzan Ozpetek napisal izi͡ashchnyĭ roman o gibeli strasti i nachale novoĭ zhizni. Zdesʹ istorii͡a li͡ubvi oborachivaetsi͡a detektivom. Zdesʹ budut upushchennye shansy i nechai͡annye udachi, i schastʹe, i razbitoe serdt͡se, i taĭny, i nezhdannye razgadki. No bolʹshe vsego zdesʹ budet nadezhdy.Vpervye na russkom!

In August 1978, a miracle happened to six-year-old Alice, although she did not realize it immediately. An elegant, slightly eccentric artist, Irene, who left Sicily for Rome a long time ago, appeared on the threshold of her parents' house. And one short conversation between an adult woman and a six-year-old girl changed the lives of both.Twelve years later, Alice finds out that Irene gave her a priceless gift before her death — the opportunity to fulfill her childhood dream of becoming an actress — and goes to Rome. An apartment haunted by the ghosts of the past; a door locked long ago; amazing paintings kept under lock and key for many years; a diary with a story about happiness and tragedy... Alice undertakes to investigate the mysterious love story of Irene, an artist who gave up painting many years ago, and in her journey she will find friends, survive dangerous encounters and, perhaps, discover herself. And in the finale, she will have a revelation that will turn her life around again.Ferzan Ozpetek, a brilliant Turkish-Italian cinematographer ("The Window Opposite", "The Presence of Splendor", "Fasten your Seat Belts"), author of best-selling books highly appreciated by critics and loved by the public, wrote an elegant novel about the death of passion and the beginning of a new life. Here the love story turns into a detective story. There will be missed chances and accidental luck, and happiness, and a broken heart, and secrets, and unexpected solutions. But most of all there will be hope.For the first time in Russian!