The Boy with Two Mothers

The Boy with Two Mothers is a 1929 novel by the Italian writer Massimo Bontempelli. It is about a seven-year-old boy in Rome who suddenly stops recognising his mother, claims his name is Ramiro and not Mario, and demands to be taken to a woman he says is his real mother, whose son Ramiro had died seven years earlier.
The novel is associated with magical realism. It was published in Estelle Gilson's English translation in the 2000 volume Separations: Two Novels of Mothers and Children, which also contains Bontempelli's novel .
It was the basis for the 2000 French film Comedy of Innocence, directed by Raúl Ruiz.