The Awakening Of Raphael.

Her debut novel "Bombay Ice" Leslie Forbes has thundered for the whole world. Which sold two million copies and translated into many languages, this book which was compared with "Foucault's Pendulum" by Umberto Eco and "Smilla and her sense of snow" by Peter Høeg, has set a new benchmark of the genre "intellectual Thriller." For "Bombay Ice" followed by the novel "Fish, blood and bone", also had a great success, and finally, for the first time in Russian comes the third novel by the writer - "the Awakening of Raphael". It literally comes to life modern Italy is a country on the eve of the second Renaissance, where closely intertwined comical and tragic, romance and violence.
The action takes place in an idyllic Urbino - the hometown of Raphael. English restorer Charlotte Penton working on the restoration of Raphael's paintings "Mute", and the TV takes about this film, and TV reporters, and local guys running around sexy Canadians Donna - a young actress, expecting that participation in this project will serve as the start of her stellar career. When at the solemn opening of the restored paintings of his crazy damage with a knife, and then the canvas miraculous bleeding, from the past start to emerge uncomfortable secrets, and even the mighty mafia is forced to seek help on the side...