Guarding Hanna is a novel by Miha Mazzini

Miha Mazzini

Miha Mazzini is a Slovenian writer, screenwriter and film director with twenty-three published books, translated in eight languages. He possesses a PhD in anthropology from the Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis and has MA in Creative Writing for Film and Television at The University of Sheffield...

. First published in Slovenia

Slovenia

Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...

 in 2000 under the title of Telesni čuvaj (Body guard). Second Slovenian edition was published in 2004.

Plot introduction

He was born a freak. With above-average intelligence, which soon realises that a body bent on destruction cannot live among others. The only person who can help him is a Mafia don, who has enough money to isolate the monster. But nothing comes free. And now, the moment when the freak has to repay the favour has arrived. He has to come out of isolation and become a bodyguard of a woman named Hanna for a week.

Translations

First American edition was published in 2002 by Scala House press under the title Guarding Hanna.

Second American edition was published in 2008 by North Atlantic Books/Random House.

Serbian edition in 2008.

Polish edition in 2008.