Alessandro Baricco is an Italian writer, journalist and music critic, winner of the prestigious literary prizes Viareggio and Palazzo al Bosco, as well as the famous French “Medici Award”, one of the most prominent European novelists of our time. Millions of readers around the world became fans of Baricco after his short, but unusually poetic and exquisite novels “Silk” and “Sea-Ocean” (first published in Russia in 2001) were translated into dozens of languages and became the basis for many theatrical productions and audio performances. Such a Story is Baricco's last published novel. The fate of its main character is inextricably linked with European history of the first half of the 20th century and is filled with genuine passion - a passion for cars, speed, and the poetry of the road. Between the historical Paris-Madrid motor rally of 1903, seen through the eyes of a child, and the legendary Mille Miglia rally of 1950, a whole life fits: the defeat of the Italian army in the First World War, turning the consciousness of a young man upside down, the share of an emigrant in America and England, a return to homeland...