I'm Not Scared
$20.35
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
3 February 2003
Summary
Winner of the prestigious 2001 Viareggio-Repaci Prize for Fiction.
1978, the hottest summer of the twentieth century. In a tiny Italian rural community, the adults shelter indoors while six children venture out on their bikes across the scorched, deserted countryside. In the midst of a sea of golden wheat, nine-year-old Michele Amitrano discovers a secret so momentous, so terrible, that he dare not tell anyone about it. To come to terms with what he finds, he will have to draw strengt…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781877008467 |
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| ISBN-10: | 187700846X |
| Author: | Niccolo Ammaniti, Jonathan Hunt |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 3 February 2003 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 130mm x 209mm |
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Critics Review
‘Readers will find this accomplished work hard to put down and even harder to forget.’
‘Niccoló Ammaniti is the best novelist of his generation.’ * Il Giornale *
‘Ammaniti, one of the most admired figures on the Italian fiction scene…uses short sentences like the cracks of a whip and sharp paragraphs to make our hearts race and carry us to the edge of the abyss.’ * ABC, Spain *
‘Ammaniti is a born story-teller.’ * L’Unita *
‘Readers will find this accomplished work hard to put down and even harder to forget.’ * Publishers Weekly *
‘A tense, breathless book, written with self-confidence and vitality.’ * La Stampa *
‘Readable in one breath…moving, impressive, amazing. It reminds you of Italo Calvino, but a Calvino warmed by a humanity that is not afraid to roll around in the mud.’ * Panorama *
‘Confirms his extraordinary narrative talent, over which he superimposes an atmosphere of horror and marvel.’ * Le Monde *
Niccolo Ammaniti
Niccolò Ammaniti was born in Rome in 1966. He has written two collections of short stories and six novels, four of which have been translated into English. He was the youngest ever winner of the Italian Viareggio Literary Prize for Fiction for his best-selling novel I’m Not Scared, which has been translated into thirty-five languages. The Crossroads received the Premio Strega Prize in 2007, Italy’s equivalent to the Booker Prize.
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