THE BEST OF MINIMUM FAX SPRING RIGHTS LIST 2017 THE BEST OF MINIMUM FAX AUTUMN 2019 FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR NOVITÀHIGHLIGHT NON FICTION - REPORTAGE giugnooctober 2017 2019 200 pages Nelle sue storie, cesellate con la finezza di Carver e Salinger, Paolo Cognetti ha sem- preA journey saputo ofrappresentare 104 kilometers con onsorprendente a two-way intensitàstreet, caught l’universo between femminile. the Ionian Ed Sea è andan- corathe Aspromonte una donna slopes:la protagonista the path fromdi Sofia Reg si- vestegio to sempre Siderno di nerois only, un one romanzo hour andcomposto a half dalong, dieci but raccontiCalabria autonomibranches into che fivela accom conti- pagnanonents and lungo more trent’anni than forty di years storia: of crimes.dall’in- fanzia in una famiglia borghese apparente- menteFrom the normale, homicide ma percorsa of the very da sotterranee powerful tensioni,CEO of the all’adolescenza Italian State Railways, tormentata Lodovico da di- sturbiLigato, psicologici, to the maxi alla laundering liberatoria operations scoperta delin Hong sesso Kong e della; from passione the privileged per il teatro, relations al momentowith Colombian della maturità narcos to e thedei brutalbilanci. assas Con- lasination sua scrittura of the journalist precisa eJàn intensa, Kuciak, che in Slona- scondevakia; from dietro the l’apparente biggest ecstasy semplicità shipment una of straordinariaall times hidden potenza in Melbourne emotiva, port, Cognetti to the ciwars regala that il are ritratto bringing di un bloodsheds personaggio to Mon fem- miniletréal and indimenticabile: Toronto: “driving una donnaon Route torbida 106 emeans inquieta, to go capace back todi thesopravvivere source of allethe proglo- priebal phenomenon nevrosi e di sfruttare of the 'ndrangheta”. improvvisi attimi di illuminazione fino a trovare, faticosa- NOME AUTORE mente,Undercover la propria agents, strada. sons Unof innocent libro avvin vi- centectims, in fourth cui ciascun generation lettore criminals troverà thatmo- Titolo libro mentionly know di bellezza violence, e di corrupt dolore, officialsdi ansia ande di riscatto,cleaned-up che riconosceràbusinessmen di averlead vissuto us down an- ANTONIO TALIA chethe sullaroute sua that stessa generated pelle. one of the most powerful criminal organizations on the PAOLOplanet. 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THE SECRET Slate sta per esplodere (2007), vincitore, tra gli altri, del Pre- ROADS OF THE 'NDRANGHETA, mio Fucini, del Premio Settembrini e finalista al Premio THEFICTION MOST POWERFUL MAFIA-TYPE RouteChiara, Sofia106 issi vestea journey sempre indi nerothe (2012)history e A pesca and ORGANIZEDcollana SOTTERRANEI CRIME GROUP AT A psicogeography.nelle pozze più profonde Deciphering (2014), affascinante the minds riflessione of GLOBAL LEVEL. thesull’arte ‘ndrangheta del racconto. affiliates is its end point. 18 euro - 340 pagine formato 14,7 X 21 cm isbn 978-88-7521-692-4 2 HIGHLIGHTSEZIONE NON FICTION - REPORTAGE october 2019 200 pages NOME AUTORE THE PEOPLE Questo è il titolo del libro Most of the people born and grownPREFAZIONE in Reggio DI Calabria NOME between COGNOME the end of the 70’s and the mid 90’s run away as soon as possible. All these people share a “survivor mentality”. They attended primary and secondary schools during a period in which the war between clans produced an average of 100 victims a year, and our city was synonym of the most infamous crime: kidnapping. I edizione: 2015 / isbn 978-88-7521-653-5 THE ROUTE 19 euro - 220 pagine / formato 14,7 X 21 cm Route 106 is a wealth of stories and characters, but it remains an “elsewhere” even for those who know Nelleit, while sue people storie, who cesellate go down conit for lathe finezza first time di go throughmente a cultural normale, shock. ma Landscapespercorsa da characterized sotterranee by Carverabandoned e Salinger, villages, slow Paolo pace, Cognetti accents that ha semchange- withintensioni, miles, a deepall’adolescenza beauty mixed tormentatawith a vague feelingda di- preof threat. saputo Everything rappresentare maintains con a peculiar sorprendente impenetrability thatsturbi hasn’t psicologici, changed in alla years. liberatoria scoperta intensità l’universo femminile. Ed è an- del sesso e della passione per il teatro, al coraTHE ASTONISHMENT una donna la protagonista di Sofia si momento della maturità e dei bilanci. Con vesteAs the sempre power ofdi criminalnero, un Calabria romanzo families composto grew, I found somela sua splinters scrittura of Route precisa 106 even e intensa, ten of kilometers che na- daaway, dieci and raccontiI noticed an autonomi incredible adaptability che la accom of these- modelssconde and thesedietro characters. l’apparente But the semplicità root was always una pagnanothe same, andlungo was trent’anni undecipherable di storia: to those dall’in who didn’t- livestraordinaria in that context. potenza emotiva. fanzia in una famiglia borghese apparente- THE AMBIVALENCE Under Route 106, out in the open air, a secret Route 106 runs, made of family branches and lines that spread everywhere. This ambivalence also characterizes the inhabitants, capable of a sort of “biculturalism” depending on the context in whichNOME they operate AUTORE. Questo è il titolo del libro ANTONIO TALIA Mentre questo è il sottotitolo grew in a cosmopolitan familyPREFAZIONE and has been luckyDI NOME enough COGNOME to travel and learn foreign languages since his chil- dhood. So, when he became a journalist he immediately chose to work with foreign affairs. He worked for seven years in Beijing as a news correspondent for an Italian press agency: during this period he worked on different storiesI relatededizione: to 2015 crime / isbn like: 978-88-7521-653-5 • the gang that, from Beijing,19 controlled euro - 220 football pagine /betting formato all 14,7 over X the21 cmworld; • the money laundering between Italy and China; • the rise of Jihadism in Indonesia and the training of special forces in Jakarta; Nelle• Silvio sue Berlusconi’s storie, cesellate shell company con inla Hong finezza Kong; di mente normale, ma percorsa da sotterranee Carver• the money e Salinger, laundering Paolo of the Cognetti ‘ndrangheta ha in sem Hong- Kong.tensioni, all’adolescenza tormentata da di- preOnce saputo back in rappresentareItaly, he worked forcon three sorprendente years as a crime reportersturbi for psicologici, the same press alla agency, liberatoria and he workedscoperta on intensitàthe international l’universo proliferation femminile. of the ‘ndrangheta. Ed è an- del sesso e della passione per il teatro, al coraHe now una works donna as co-author la protagonista of Nessun Luogo di Sofia è Lontano si (“Nowheremomento is dellaFar Away”), maturità a foreign e dei affairs bilanci. broadcast Con vesteof Radio24, sempre and di Io nero Sono, un il romanzoCattivo (“I compostoam the bad guy”), laa broadcast sua scrittura dedicated precisa to portraying e intensa, international che na- daterrorists dieci andracconti criminals autonomi on the same che radio la accom and on -Audible.sconde dietro l’apparente semplicità una pagnano lungo trent’anni di storia: dall’in- straordinaria potenza emotiva. fanzia in una famiglia borghese apparente- 3 NEW TITLE FICTION - NOVEL october 2019 320 pages Liborio Bonfiglio is a “cocciamatte”, the lu- natic that everyone mocks. The weird and irregular person who prowls on the basalt slabs of a village that is not mentioned. But in his tangled voice the Twentieth century passes again in front of our eyes, with the overwhelming and joyful rhythm of a pro- cession with a marching band in tow. Everything in Liborio becomes tale, word, slip and memory: his school, his apprenti- ceship in a barbershop, the brothels, the war and the Resistance, his factory work, the trade union, the madhouse and his so- litude during the old age. A series of unfor- gettable characters populate his memory: the teacher Cianfarra Romeo, the maitresse Donna Assunta, his young love Teresa Gior- dani, his laborer friends, Boschetto, Lenino, Bacunino and Malatesta, the doctor Alvise Mattolini, Teté and the “Sordicchia”… From 1926, the year in which Liborio was REMO RAPINO born – “but in summer” – until 2010, the year in which he is preparing to bow out – The Life and “but in winter” – Liborio will celebrate, in a hilarious and melancholic chronicle of Times of Liborio failures and revenges, the Carnival of our century, its black signs but also its mad- Bonfiglio ness and courage. Through the miracle of an unpredictable language, crooked and circular, between tradition and funambulism, Remo Rapino wrote a novel that entertains and moves, and pulses in each line of a fragile but ob- REMO RAPINO / 1951 stinate humanity, the one that only a crazy has been professor of philosophy and hi- person like Liborio, who lived on the frin- story. He published many books of both po- ges of society, between pulped dreams and etry and prose for small publishing houses. lost words, could preserve. NEW TITLE FICTION - NOVEL june 2019 357 pages The protagonist of Kamikaze of the West is a precarious writer who is almost 40. He is a chronic penniless, so he makes money thanks to a matter of clients: women pay him to pass their nights with him, to take a walk, to argue. Everything has its price, its transla- tion in money. But one day, he receives a proposal from an obscure character who presents himself as a cultural officer of the Chinese government: he must write a book on himself, to show the decadence of Europe and justify the immi- nent, not only economic, Chinese invasion. Unless the writer traces, in his own life or in everyone’s one, almost an ounce of passion.