BOMPIANI FALL RIGHTS LIST 2020 1 1 Fall 2020 rights list Focus On BOMPIANI FICTION FOCUS ON Antonio Scurati M. The Man of Providence M. L’UOMO DELLA PROVVIDENZA The second volume of Antonio Scurati’s epopee. Mussolini is now a distant entity, series about Mussolini, from 1925 looking at the path of History, around to 1932. which his old comrades tear each other to pieces. He puts Augusto Turati to 1925: the youngest Prime Minister in sedate his hierarchs’ fights, he forgets Italian history and in the world, who his gratitude to Margherita Sarfatti, he has just laid on himself the fault of tries to placate his daughter Edda’s flame the Matteotti murder, who is now the by marrying her off to Galeazzo Ciano only winner of Italian political arena, and lays upon Badoglio and Graziani the is suffering from an ulcer. This is the African enterprise, celebrated by the opening scene of the second chapter regime propaganda but fought by using of Antonio Scurati’s tale of the Fascist gas and concentration camps. ANTONIO SCURATI was born in 1969 in Naples and teaches Comparative Mondello Prize. Among his many books, translated into many Literatures at the IULM university in Milan, where is head languages: Il bambino che sognava la fine del mondo (2009, of the Master in Storytelling. He also works for “Il Corriere shortlisted for the Strega Prize), La seconda mezzanotte della Sera” and is author of many essays. He’s been writing (2011), Il padre infedele (2013, shortlisted for the Strega novels since 2002. Il sopravvissuto was awarded the Prize) and Il tempo migliore della nostra vita (2015, Viareggio 2005 Campiello Prize and Una storia romantica the 2008 Prize and Selezione Campiello Prize). WINNER OF THE 2019 STREGA PRIZE “A novel Italy had been awaiting for for decades. A true masterpiece.” Roberto Saviano 24 EDITIONS, 310.000 COPIES PRINTED SOON TO BECOME A TV SERIES SOLD IN 21 LANGUAGES Rights sold prior to publication: Croatian (Fraktura); Portuguese/Brasil (Intrinseca); German (Klett-Cotta); W-Spanish (Alfaguara/Penguin Random House); Dutch (Podium) BOMPIANI FOCUS Pages: 656 Rightholder: RIGHTS LIST ON Publication: September 2020 The Italian Literary Price: e 23,00 Agency 4 FICTION FOCUS ON Roberto Saviano Shout It Out GRIDALO The great adventure of freedom of the mechanics we thought we knew speech: with his writing both epic and and reveal others we didn’t suspect. All lucid, Saviano unveils all the dangerous together, they make up a great picture, dynamics dominating any kind of animated by the will of the author to communication. Nevertheless, at the end save stories that can make amend to of the book, we feel full of energies, injustice and abuses, and to shout aloud of dreams, of indignation. words forbidden by the regimes. From Ipazia to Robert Capa, from Giordano These pages are made of passionate Bruno to Anna Achmatova, celebrated and gripping tales that dismantle reality men and women come and question us. under our own eyes and show us all ROBERTO SAVIANO (Naples, 1979) is author of the international bestsellers he published In mare non esistono taxi. As a screenwriter, he Gomorra (2006) and ZeroZeroZero (2013) and of the novels was awarded the Grand Prix du Jury for Gomorra in Cannes La paranza dei bambini (2016), Bacio feroce (2017). In 2019 and the Silver Bear in Berlin for La paranza di bambini. GOMORRA, ZEROZEROZERO AND LA PARANZA DEI BAMBINI SOLD OVER 10 MILLION COPIES WORLDWIDE. GOMORRA AND ZEROZEROZERO HAVE BECOME TWO SUCCESSFUL TV SERIES BOMPIANI FOCUS Pages: 384 Rightholder: RIGHTS LIST ON Publication: November 2020 The Wylie Agency Price: e 22,00 5 Munizioni A collection edited by Roberto Saviano BOMPIANI HIGHLIGHTS Arianna Farinelli American Gothic GOTICO AMERICANO A remarkable debut novel. An unflinching with the racist conservatism of the new portrait of America today as seen from president or the loneliness that haunts within and from without. A collective and her amid the thousand bright lights of intimately personal narrative of migration, Manhattan. She is pregnant by her young dreams, resentments, of promises, of Afro-American student, Yunus, who for betrayals, and love as our only fighting two days now hasn’t been answering her chance. phone calls. Yunus, aged twenty, sends her a manuscript to her in which he tells his It’s the night of the presidential elections. own story: the tale of a young man of colour Bruna, a professor of Political Science to whom life leaves few choices, and who in New York, has been on television, therefore makes the most radical possible commenting on the results. But back at one – one that takes him to Syria, to fight the apartment she shares with her husband in a war which represents the failure of Tom and their children, the wave of nausea centuries of human progress. that overwhelms her has nothing to do ARIANNA FARINELLI was born in Rome in 1975. She has been living in the United States since 2001. In 2009 she was granted a PhD in Political Science and since 2010 she has been a lecturer at Baruch College, City University of New York. This is her first novel. ENGLISH SAMPLE TRANSLATION AVAILABLE FIRST PRINT RUN: 25,000 COPIES Rights sold: German (S. Fischer); Dutch (Prometheus); W-Spanish (De Conatus) BOMPIANI Pages: 288 W. English rights: RIGHTS LIST Publication: January 2020 Janklow & Nesbit Price: e 18,00 7 HIGHLIGHTS Daphne Caruana Galizia Speak the Truth Even if Your Voice Shakes DI’ LA VERITÀ ANCHE SE LA TUA VOCE TREMA The book Daphne Caruana Galizia Daphne paid with her life for thirty years was working on at the time of her of investigative journalism in which assassination. she exposed the dark side of Malta, from political corruption, drug trade “There are crooks everywhere you look, and money laundering to the influence the situation is desperate.” These are the exerted by the Azerbaijani regime over last words that Daphne Caruana Galizia local politics, Malta’s role in the Panama posted on Running Commentary, at 2.35 Papers scandal and the sale of Maltese pm on 16th October 2017. Minutes later, citizenship – accounting for 2.5% of the Peugeot 108 in which Daphne was the island nation’s GDP. Daphne’s last heading away from Dar Rihana exploded, words will remain a painful warning amid and that sentence unwittingly became the flowers at the site of her makeshift, her final message to readers of the blog. unofficial memorial. DAPHNE CARUANA GALIZIA a Maltese journalist and blogger, wrote for “Sunday Times of Malta”, for “Malta Independent” and for the blog “Running Commentary”, opened in 2008. She was murdered in an attack on October 16th, 2017. FULL ENGLISH TEXT AVAILABLE FOREWORD BY ROBERTO SAVIANO INTRODUCTION BY PAUL CARUANA GALIZIA INTRODUCTIONS TO SECTIONS OF THE BOOK BY ANDREW, MATTHEW AND PAUL CARUANA GALIZIA. “Daphne Caruana Galizia had the courage and resilience to write despite the threats she faced. [...] To secure justice it is essential that there is a public inquiry to determine who commissioned her killing – and, crucially, whether it could have been prevented.” Margaret Atwood Rights sold: German (Orell Füssli) BOMPIANI Pages: 400 RIGHTS LIST Publication: October 2019 Price: e 18,00 8 Fiction HIGHLIGHTS NOIRS MODERN CLASSICS BOMPIANI FICTION HIGHLIGHTS Giulia Caminito Lake Water Is Never Sweet L’ACQUA DEL LAGO NON È MAI DOLCE A red-haired girl, a lake that seems to to be good but not to expect anything swallow any hope. A harsh, disturbing, from anyone, ever. And so Gaia does: coming-of-age novel with a strong, she never complains, she dives into the contradictory unforgettable main lake even when the currents are at their character. strongest, she reads books instead of watching TV, she hides away her sadness On the shores of the Bracciano lake where nobody can see it. Until, facing Antonia’s family arrives: she is a brave an injustice, she reacts violently and her mother, with a handicapped husband and vengeance will be that of a mute deity. four children, and teaches her daughter GIULIA CAMINITO was born in Rome in 1988. She graduated in Political alcohol and was a vivid personality, well known throughout Philosophy at Roma Tre University. Her mother is an author the Italian communities in Ethiopia and Eritrea. Her debut of books for children. Her father, a writer as well, is originally novel, La grande A (2016), was awarded the Bagutta Prize. form Asmara and his grandmother and grandfather met in Bompiani also published Un giorno verrà. Assab. Her greatgrandmother drove a truck, sold contraband Rights for Un giorno verrà sold: German (Wagenbach); French (Gallmeister) BOMPIANI HIGHLIGHTS Pages: 200 Rightholder: RIGHTS LIST Publication: January 2021 MalaTesta Literary Agency Price: e 17,00 10 FICTION HIGHLIGHTS Yari Selvetella The Rules of Lovers LE REGOLE DEGLI AMANTI Yari Selvetella depicts two thoughtless moment they meet, Iole’s and Sandro’s and selfish characters, the scant Italian lives start turning around one question, bourgeoisie of the 21st century, the flame how to protect their happiness from the of a man and a woman glowing with their passing of time. They think they have love for words, their need for authenticity an answer, or at least a starting point: and for a great contemporary romance. they know what they do not want. They want to escape boredom, but without Falling in love when adults is always disrupting their lives. So they set a 30- difficult: that unreasonable feeling year pact and a decalogue, in order to exposes us and makes us take important experiment the charms of undercover decisions. That is what happens to the love and to fully live their marriages and main characters of this novel: since the children.