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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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“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

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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

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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.

YARI SELVETELLA (Rome, 1976) published the novels La banda Tevere (2015) and Le stanze dell’addio (Bompiani, 2018), longlisted for the Strega Prize, and the poetry collection La maschera dei gladiatori (2014). He works as a TV author for Rai Uno.

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“The novel tells both the power of love and its exceptionality and even its seriousness when it finishes. It tries obsessively, and therefore desperately, to free clandestine love from imperfections.” Francesco Piccolo, “La Lettura – Corriere della Sera”

“The Rules of Lovers stands as a fresco of the Italian bourgeoisie ‘with few qualities’ on the glimpse of the new millennium and, at the same time, as a literary investigation on the possibility of great love, today.” “Il Libraio”

BOMPIANI HIGHLIGHTS Pages: 320 RIGHTS LIST Publication: September 2020 Price: e 18,00 11 FICTION NOIR Cristiano Governa The Clarissine Strategy LA STRATEGIA DELLA CLARISSA

An unusual detective story set between but a very unusual one: she likes bikinis, Bologna and the Riviera Romagnola and dirty talk and his brother’s cooking. played by a landlocked detective and his One day Paola finds out that someone nun sister. is praying St. Catherine to make some people die. At the same time Carlo has Carlo Vento is a police inspector in to find a 15 y.o. girl who disappeared. A Bologna: he loves old songs and good dead body is found in Romagna, by the cooking, hates the sea and those fake TV sea, and Carlo must set off and try to detectives. His sister Paola, beautiful and solve the case. Paola will be his helper. restless, has become a Clarissine nun,

CRISTIANO GOVERNA (1970) lives and works in Bologna. He is a journalist, a writer and writes for the cinema and the theatre. He published the novels Il catechista and the collection of short stories Le lettere cattive and Baranowski.

ENGLISH SAMPLE TRANSLATION AVAILABLE Bologna in summer is the perfect place to disappear. And to kill. A caustic noir full of poetry.

BOMPIANI NOIR Pages: 400 RIGHTS LIST Publication: June 2019 Price: e 18,00 12 FICTION NOIR Stefano Jacini The Lady of Rue de Vaugirard LA DAMA DI RUE DE VAUGIRARD

A rug glued to the floor in a Parisian rug that has been glued to the drawing apartment which is up for sale; a letter room floor and which Gorbio (who is from Rossini to an over-insistent lover; not entirely unknown to the criminal a marriage for money (or perhaps not); justice system) is set to recover at any an unsigned painting... cost. Thus begins a witty detective story teeming with music, culture and figures At the Bibliothèque Nationale Camillo from the past: meet the portrait of a Monghidoro is researching Rossini’s mysterious female traveller from which years in Paris; at the same time he is the signature has been erased, a mature also in the process of purchasing a flat noblewoman answering to the name from Bruno Gorbio – the apartment in of Antea, her latest boyfriend Titto which the vendor’s mother spent the Torbole, and the courteous owner of a last ten years of her life. No one can crêperie located in the building where fail to notice the magnificent Aubusson D’Artagnan may once have lived...

STEFANO JACINI is a writer, editor, journalist and a lover of and an expert in classical music. With Bompiani he has published Dio e monsieur Divan, Tu non nascesti audace, L’invidia degli dei and Mefisto Valzer.

STEFANO JACINI Music, art and irony for an elegant, exhilarating detective story which invites us to acknowledge the humour in human absurdity.

BOMPIANI NOIR Pages: 240 RIGHTS LIST Publication: June 2021 Price: e 17,00 13 FICTION NOIR Silvana La Spina Sister Death SORELLA MORTE

A detective nun, a female police officer, a the aristocratic Pennisi di Floristella case in the shadows of a cloister. family: Sister Benedetta’s cousin, Marilù, a forty-year-old whose ex-husband lives Catania. The convent of San Benedetto. in America and whose career to-date has The nuns pray and teach. Their boarding- been somewhat erratic. school pupils study, gossip and daydream, While Marilù does her best to like all teenage girls. Until the convent’s disentangle a web of guilty silence with gatekeeper, Sister Germana, enters the aid of a strange old man who talks classroom B and finds Sister Barbara to a ghost, the young Sister Benedetta stripped of her veil and lying in a pool is assisted by Maria, a simple soul and a of blood. The Mother Superior instructs fine cook: a modern-day Sancho Panza in Sister Benedetta to begin making holy orders who knows all too well that enquiries into the murder. Meanwhile, when evil flourishes no one should be the police officer investigating the crime terribly surprised. just happens to be another member of

SILVANA LA SPINA is the author of a book of short stories entitled Scirocco (1997), Penelope (1998), La creata Antonia (winner of Premio (1992, winner of Premio Chiara), and of several Vittorini), La continentale (2014) and L’uomo che veniva novels, such as Morte a Palermo (1987, winner of da Messina (2015). She also the author of a series of three Premio Mondello), L’ultimo treno da Catania (Bompiani novels featuring Inspector Maria Laura Gangemi: Uno sbirro 1992), Quando Marte è in Capricorno (Bompiani 1994), Un femmina (2007), La bambina pericolosa (2008) and Un inganno dei sensi malizioso (1995), L’amante del paradiso cadavere eccellente (2011).

A black comedy powered by women against the backdrop of a Sicily full of mystery.

BOMPIANI NOIR Pages: 208 RIGHTS LIST Publication: June 2021 Price: e 17,00 14 FICTION NOIR Fausto Vitaliano The Half-Moon Bay. Gori Misticò’s Last Investigations LA MEZZALUNA DI SABBIA. LE ULTIME INDAGINI DI GORI MISTICÒ

An inspector torn between the Nicola Strangio, an oncologist working temptation to let evil triumph and the in Milan. Gori has cancer, probably love for his beautiful land, Calabria. incurable. He travels to the north of Italy for medication, but without much Gregorio Misticò, known as Gori, is chief conviction. inspector of the Carabinieri. Forty years Gori Misticò doesn’t want to be bothered old, he has a twenty-centimetre scar in this crucial time of his life. But a over his heart. After working with the heinous murder followed by another very Anti-Terrorism Unit in Milan he returns elegant but no less suspicious death will to San Telesforo Jonico, his hometown disrupt San Telesforo. The Vice Brigadier in the South, and goes on leave. No Federico Costantino asks for his help. one knows why, except his friend Gori refuses, but...

FAUSTO VITALIANO was born in Calabria, but has been living in Milan for most of Together with Serra he wrote the monologue his life. He is a screenwriter for Disney Italia and has written Tutti i santi giorni (produced by Teatro dei Filodrammatici comic storylines for Sergio Bonelli, for Edizioni BD/Corriere in Milan). Among his books, the novels Era solo una della Sera, and the French publisher BD Music. He has also promessa, Lorenzo Segreto and La grammatica della corsa, worked in radio, TV and newspapers, has translated books, and the children’s non-fiction booksLa Repubblica a piccoli and edited anthologies by Beppe Grillo and Michele Serra. passi and La musica a piccoli passi.

ENGLISH SAMPLE TRANSLATION AVAILABLE A portrait of Calabria caught between degradation and splendour. A classic investigation with a contemporary pace.

THE FIRST NOVEL IN AN INTRIGUING SERIES.

THE SECOND NOVEL TO BE PUBLISHED IN JUNE 2021.

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BOMPIANI NOIR Pages: 400 RIGHTS LIST Publication: June 2020 Price: e 18,00 15 FICTION Marta Barone Sunken City CITTÀ SOMMERSA

A semi-unknown father and his past to an armed band? And why did he never be discovered. Terrorism in 1970s Turin. want to tell his daughter about those years? Lawyers, old far-left-winged A young woman, lonely and in love militants, archives and trial accounts with literature, writes the chronicle of are voices that slowly make up the her fight with her father’s death: the portrait of a complex and contradictory two had shared a happy relationship man, a witness and a protagonist of a during her happy childhood, a hard one complex and contradictory time. On the during her teenage years. But now that background, Turin, city of rage, pain the man is dead too many questions lay and hope, backdrop of violence that unanswered: who was the young doctor- generated just deception and ruins. worker who always sided with the poor, The novel of a man, of his families, of who always had someone to save, who his choices, retold with love and fury. was sentenced to jail for taking part in

MARTA BARONE was born in Turin in 1987. She is a translator and wrote three children’s books: Miriam delle cose perdute, I giardini degli altri and I 7 colori per 7 pittori. This is her first novel for adults.

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BOMPIANI Pages: 304 RIGHTS LIST Publication: January 2020 Price: e 18,00 16 FICTION Giomaria Bellu Children of the Moon I BAMBINI DELLA LUNA

The story of a man who chose to live following Why this way to exit life? Giomaria Bellu his ideas and failed. Stubborn, contradictory, tells this true story with the pace and beloved, yet lonely to the terrible end of his passion of a novelist, propelled by being life. The parable of a son of our times told the same age as Sgargy: they were both from another son of our times who delves children of the Moon, just kids when man into his life starting from his death. set foot on our satellite, born in an age of hope and great expectations. What happened Angelo Di Carlo was 54 and hopelessly then? A piece of investigative journalism built unemployed when he took his life by setting on interviews and meetings with family himself on fire in front of the Italian Parliament friends, travels in provincial Italy, visits on August 11th 2012. It was summer, the time to former homes, following the footprints of vacations and leisure, and the press ran very of a man who chose to be faithful to his succinct reports of this terrible death. ideals and then lost faith. The portrait Who was Angelo “Sgargy” Di Carlo, “the of a man and of a time when everything Green Jan Palach”, as he was dubbed? seemed possible and then was not.

GIOMARIA BELLU born in Cagliari, is a journalist and novelist. He worked for “la Repubblica”, was coeditor at “L’Unità”, editor at “Left”, “Sardegna 24” and “Sardinia Post”.

BOMPIANI Pages: 320 RIGHTS LIST Publication: Fall 2021 Price: e 21,00 17 FICTION Gianfranco Calligarich Life at the Extreme UNA VITA ALL’ESTREMO

The life of Vittorio Bottego, the Italian Società Geografica, thus gaining general officer and explorer who crossed Equatorial attention and praise. He was back to Africa at the end of the XIX century and Africa in 1892 for a new expedition died on the battlefield, told by the brilliant with a company of scientists: the aim literary voice of Last Summer in Town. was to cross Ethiopia and trace the course of river Oma. But they were Born in 1860, Vittorio Bottego was caught unawares by the open hostilities an officer in the Sabaudian army and between Italy and Ethiopia and Bottego left first for Africa in 1887 as part of was killed on the battlefield in 1897. a special corps meant to explore some With his rich, rotund prose and peculiar still widely unknown parts of Equatorial style that has won him the attention Africa. His first feat was going from of the international literary milieu, Massaua to Assab along the coast, Gianfranco Calligarich tells the story, meanwhile collecting samples of local hopes, delusions, defeat of a forgotten flora: a trip he then reported to the hero.

GIANFRANCO CALLIGARICH was born in Asmara, Eritrea, from a family from Trieste. He He is author of many novels, among which L’ultima estate grew up in Milan before moving to Rome where he worked in città, Principessa, Posta prioritaria, La malinconia dei as a journalist and screenplayer. He wrote many successful Crusich (winner of ViareggioRèpaci Prize), Tre uomini in programmes for RAI and in 1994 was the founder of the fuga. Teatro XX Secolo. He was awarded many prizes for his plays.

WINNER OF 2017 VIAREGGIO-REPACI PRIZE WITH LA MALINCONIA DEI CRUSICH

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BOMPIANI Pages: 320 RIGHTS LIST Publication: Spring 2021 Price: e 18,00 18 FICTION Enzo Fileno Carabba The Imagined Lives of Vasari VITE SOGNATE DEL VASARI

Fra Filippo Lippi and his gift for being biographies he has found the seeds of forgiven. Verrocchio and the dangers of what develops into utterly fanciful (or studying too hard. Andrea del Castagno entirely plausible) episodes via which he and the bearing of grudges. Leon reintroduces us to the greatest artists of Battista Alberti and his nostalgia... the Renaissance from a compelling new angle. Each tale explores a state of mind Vasari’s The Lives of the Artists is an or a state of grace. These are stories from extraordinary document recounting the the past, but the emotions they portray stories of the founding figures of Western are utterly contemporary. From Leonardo art, but for many reasons it is also far da Vinci to Titian to Cimabue and from accessible for most contemporary Michelangelo, the history of art becomes readers. Inspired by Vasari’s Lives, an endless source of images and feelings Carabba has embarked upon a piece of that enrich lives. narrative archaeology: in each of Vasari’s

ENZO FILENO CARABBA is the author of novels, short stories, radio plays, children’s di zucchero and La zia subacquea e altri abissi famigliari, books and opera librettos. In 1990 he won the Premio as well as the middle-grade fantasy saga Fuga da Calvino for the novel Jakob Pesciolini (1992), the first Magopoli and Battaglia a Magopoli. He writes for “Il Corriere volume of a fantasy trilogy which also includes La regola Fiorentino” and “Corriere della Sera”. His novels have been del silenzio (1994) and La foresta finale (1997). His other translated into several languages. books have included Pessimi Segnali, Attila, Con un poco

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BOMPIANI Pages: 180 RIGHTS LIST Publication: June 2021 Price: e 15,00 19 FICTION Giulia Contini The Canary Room LA STANZA DEI CANARINI

An intense, painful and brilliant story a gloomy unhappiness overcomes her. about what it takes to find ourselves An encounter with Adele, a high school through someone else. teacher who “inhabits space like morning light peering through blinds”, will change A girl’s path through her efforts to everything. It will bring the real Giulia accept her own identity and to be back to life, with all the courage needed accepted. The story of a difficult love. to keep a bond that her provincial world Giulia was the perfect child: intelligent considers wrong. Adele can but surrender and good at everything. Her parents herself to Giulia’s invincible passion, considered her strong and independent, and all her resistance fails in the face so much as to place her bedroom in of this immense love, which can only the most remote part of the house: be freed once high school is over for upstairs, where everything creaked, Giulia. And then Giulia and Adele will and where the canaries were once have to confront the passing of time, the kept. But when Giulia is in that room, changes.

GIULIA CONTINI is the pen name of a writer from the Marche Region, Italy. This is her debut novel.

A MUST READ BECAUSE: This is a love story. The story of a forbidden love, judged and surrounded by eyes as sharp as thorns.

BOMPIANI Pages: 256 RIGHTS LIST Publication: March 2020 Price: e 16,00 20 FICTION Paolo Di Stefano Us NOI

The story of a family and the roots of starts a journey towards the future which their unhappiness, the flashes of joy that has been denied to his brother Claudio. leave spotted marks on their paths. It is also a journey the narrator conducts into the past, with the feeling of someone One day in April 1967. It’s raining, breathing behind him, a feeble voice Italian singer Patty Pravo celebrates insinuating itself among his thoughts, her nineteenth birthday, football player unwilling to be ignored. Di Stefano Burgnich scores his second goal for Inter gathers and preserves traces of an entire at San Siro against Bologna, and the life universe of non-prominent though very of a family changes forever. One of the relevant lives, gathering them around, children playing in the living room is the finding the strength to evoke and say author of this story. In the next room, his goodbye for ever to his little brother, at younger brother is dying of leukaemia, a once loved, envied, tormented and lost. disease for which the following year there will be a cure. On this day the narrator

PAOLO DI STEFANO was born in Avola, Sicily; he is a correspondent for “Corriere (with Massimo Siragusa, 2018). Under the nom de plume della Sera”. He has published poems, short stories, Nino Motta he has published La parrucchiera di Pizzuta investigation reports, and novels such as La catastròfa. (Bompiani, 2017). He has won several literary awards, such Marcinelle 8 agosto 1956 (2011), Giallo d’Avola (2013), as Grinzane Cavour, SuperFlaiano, SuperVittorini, Campiello, I pesci devono nuotare (2015) and Respirano i muri Volponi, Lo Straniero, and Viareggio-Rèpaci.

BOMPIANI Pages: 608 Rightholder: RIGHTS LIST Publication: May 2020 Grandi e Associati Price: e 22,00 21 FICTION Davide D’Urso The Famished I FAMELICI

A father and a son, two different ways of precarious jobs, dreaming of opening living, two generations coming out from his bookshop. Two generations clashing, the same lower provincial middle class regrets and silences bursting: possibly now in deep crisis. the only way to reconcile this deep fracture and to rebuild a working Two deeply different men, the father relationship will be regrouping around – who won everything he wanted in the idea of family and the call of their his life – and the son, a testament to common roots. our difficult times, balancing between

DAVIDE D’URSO A bookseller and author, he is head of the Neapolitan branch of che Coop Bookshop. Among his former books Il paese che non voleva cambiare and Tra le macerie.

BOMPIANI Pages: 240 RIGHTS LIST Publication: January 2021 Price: e 17,00 22 FICTION Fulvio Ervas The Little Book of Prodigious Insects PICCOLO LIBRO DI ENTOMOLOGIA FANTASTICA

A gang of children fascinated by insects butterfly house is to be found. Emily, and disappointed in adults. A villa filled Melchior, Mr Flood, Madame Lamarr with pensioners and butterflies. and Greenway, the time doctor, are the villa’s not-so-youthful residents, and each Daisy, Red, Imre, Ebony and Saul: out-of- one of them is there for a precise and the-ordinary names for out-of-the-ordinary secret reason. This is the story of the children. Children who feel stifled in their extraordinary things that happen when the grey home town with its distant and rather melancholy patience of old age encounters hopeless adults. Only the strange the hopeful, hungry urgency of youth. In exoskeletons and preposterous iridescence describing the tiniest of nature’s creatures, of insects arouse the gang’s enthusiasm. this is a book that talks about us – because In the search for new specimens to add to life’s tough carapace can and does crack their collection, the kids set off towards open, revealing wings ready for the miracle the villa in which, it is said, a huge of flight.

FULVIO ERVAS is a science teacher and a writer. In 1999 he was joint and much-translated Se ti abbraccio non aver paura [Don’t winner of the Premio Calvino, sharing the prize with Paola Be Afraid if I Hug You] which in 2019 became a film Volare/( Mastrocola. Since then he has published a host of books, Tutto il mio folle amore) directed by Gabriele Salvatores including Tu non tacere, Follia docente, Nonnitudine, the and starring Valeria Golino, Claudio Santamaria and Diego eight Inspector Stucky novels, from which a film starring Abatantuono. Giuseppe Battiston was made in 2017, and the much-loved

A novel about the passing of time and the force of nature linking generations.

BOMPIANI Pages: 300 RIGHTS LIST Publication: February 2021 Price: e 18,00 23 FICTION Mario Fortunato South SUD

A tale of love and loss set in Calabria, stopped in their travels and happily settled, where the Greeks stopped and settled. a land now full of ruins and sun, the novel The story of a middle class family in takes us back at the time when notaries southern Italy throughout the last century. and lawyers were undiscussed authorities in small towns. Meet the Notaio, his lover The story of a middle class family in Magda, a Polish countess and a spy, and Calabria from the beginning of the 20th delve into their love story in Naples; meet century to our times told from the point the Farmacista, owner of the first chemist’s of view of Valentino, set to leave southern shop in town, his wife Lea and their Italy in the Seventies as a young man in children; follow the paths where these lives order to find a better life elsewhere, and cross, and Tamara, Mara for short, marries then bound in his middle age to rake into the Notaio’s family; get to know through and rebuild memories of old like charming Uncle Giorgio, an extravagant all of us do when looking for roots. Set loner, owner of two small Gauguins, and in Magna Grecia, the land where Greeks Gioacchino, the house ghost...

MARIO FORTUNATO has published the following books with Bompiani: Luoghi the Mondello and Super Mondello-Città di Palermo Prizes), naturali, Immigrato (with Salah Methnani), I giorni innocenti Quelli che ami non muoiono, Tre giorni a Parigi, Le voci di della guerra (finalist for the 2007 Strega Prize and winner of Berlino, Noi tre and Tutti i nostri errori.

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“The novel’s great theme is the return, the dream of returning, the horror of the return, the substantial impossibility of returning.” Isabella Bossi Fedrigotti, “Corriere della Sera”

“Beautiful, gorgeous, sensual, seductive and magnetic since the cover image, Mario Fortunato’s new book is a journey through time, history, space, passions.” Francesco Mannoni, “Giornale di Brescia”

BOMPIANI Pages: 304 RIGHTS LIST Publication: June 2020 Price: e 18,00 24 FICTION Mario Fortunato Those You Love Do Not Die QUELLI CHE AMI NON MUOIONO

Mario Fortunato’s friends, cities, writers, behind a door; Natalia Ginzburg, afraid encounters, sceneries, landscapes, real of speaking in public; Alberto Moravia, and heart’s geographies. dying in a moment of distraction; Agota Kristof’s nastiness; Hanif Kureishi’s Borges, who know people through sweet roughness; Giorgio Bassani’s their hands; Pier Vittorio Tondelli, who absent-minded look; Paul Bowles’ looks at the Greek sea for the last time; loneliness. And then Rome, Berlin, New Giulio Einaudi, who eats a chicken with York, Tangeri, London. A life in books, Nanni Moretti; Salman Rushdie, hiding writers and places.

MARIO FORTUNATO has published the following books with Bompiani: Luoghi the Mondello and Super Mondello-Città di Palermo Prizes), naturali, Immigrato (with Salah Methnani), I giorni innocenti Tre giorni a Parigi, Le voci di Berlino, Noi tre, Tutti i nostri della guerra (finalist for the 2007 Strega Prize and winner of errori and Sud.

A NEW EDITION WITH NEW VOICES, PEOPLE AND STORIES

FINALIST 2007 STREGA PRIZE

BOMPIANI Pages: 350 RIGHTS LIST Publication: February 2021 Price: e 12,00 25 FICTION Loredana Lipperini The Night Is Coming LA NOTTE SI AVVICINA

An ancient evil, embodied in illnesses, that prevent anybody from going in and in unsolved crimes, in carnages: a theme out, unsecure, fearful and angry people dear to the author, here intertwined with live: the feral mothers who make social supernatural phenomena that make the services take too much interest in Maria readers fight their own fears. and her children; Chiara, alone and lost in her world of visions, dreams, punitive 2008: the year that changed everything, angels; Saretta, seventy years old, with the year of the economic crash, when her total dominion over Vallescura, the indifference reached its peak. In a little village hurt by the earthquake which isolated village, surrounded by soldiers hides a secret and seems to attract evil.

LOREDANA LIPPERINI is a writer, a journalist for “la Repubblica” and the voice (2007), L’ho uccisa perché l’amavo with Michela Murgia of “Fahrenheit”, Radio 3. Her blog Lipperatura has been a (2013), the children’s book Pupa (Rrose Sélavy, 2013). meeting point for literary, cultural and political debate since Bompiani published L’arrivo di Saturno (2017), the collection 2004. She published gothic novels under the nom de plum of short stories Magia nera (2019) and the new edition of Non Lara Manni and the essays Ancora dalle parte delle bambine è un paese per vecchie (2020).

“I’m never sure about my gestures: there is no accord between me and the surrounding space! When I move, I have to disentangle myself from thousands of invisible knots.”

Upon all the things in her life, Jarre casts the same detached, alienating and slightly ironic gaze. Marta Barone

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BOMPIANI Pages: 320 RIGHTS LIST Publication: October 2020 Price: e 18,00 26 FICTION Melissa Magnani Teodoro

A debut novel about the sacredness of oblivious of his existence. His life is a family bonds. secret buried in memory. But Teodoro speaks, talks, reveals. He gets closer, Teodoro is a child who anybody from touches, comforts his brothers and parents lived for eleven days. He now occupies with love, tenderness and complicity. a place suspended in mid-air. From The scattered splinters of each existence there he observes life happening after recompose in Teodoro’s whispering voice, him. He retraces his places, under the in a country village where life rhythms bell tower, in the field where horses are follow the seasons, the rituals of the land, resting, inside his house. He looks again the migration of birds. for his place in his mother’s arms, among A child who is not there, who was there his father’s words. He pronounces the when too little, and who follows the lives names of his brothers: Ero, Gedeone, Ada, of his nine brothers born after him like a Abele, Zaira, Giacinto, Libero, Pellegrino, devoted small shadow. and Mario. Nine, all born after him, all

MELISSA MAGNANI was born in Correggio in 1992, and when not in Correggio, she spends her time in Bologna, working in art and fashion. This is her debut novel.

A debut novel of sensitivity and substance, suffused with the timeless immutable stuff of rural life.

BOMPIANI Pages: 160 RIGHTS LIST Publication: February 2021 Price: e 15,00 27 FICTION Mahsa Mohebali Tehran girl

A gripping novel that overturns the Switzerland, her doll face collapses and cliché of the objectified women and is replaced by that of the girl born and tells us about Iran’s past and present raised in a Communist lair during the thanks to a blunt, explicit and irreverent revolution. Was it her who reported her writing, refusing to compromise with family with the photos that pasdaran had any kind of censorship. found in her diary? Or did someone else use her to break her parents’ cover and Elham is the charming secretary of an stop the political fight that was leading Iranian businessman. She is used to be them to ruin? Now she is looking for an obliging and nice, to be considered just answer and navigating between traffic, for her looks and to take orders, even work issues, pretenders, her opium- from herself. But when her boss reveals addicted mother, her lazy brother and her that her father is alive and living in ex’ still staying at her place.

MAHSA MOHEBALI was born and lives in Teheran. She is a writer, a screenwriter three novels. In 2013 she took part in the International and a literary critic, very well known and admired in her Writing Program of Iowa University. Her works have been country. She published two collections of short stories and translated into Italian, Turkish, English and Swedish.

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BOMPIANI Pages: 272 RIGHTS LIST Publication: March 2020 Price: e 17,00 28 FICTION Lia Piano Planimetry of a Happy Family PLANIMETRIA DI UNA FAMIGLIA FELICE

Are all the families alike? A funny, clever dangerously fond of chemistry; and la and a bit magic debut novel. Nana, who tells the story from her 6 y.o. point of view. And then there’s the big Father can draw, loves the sea, villa on the hill, where the family has just challenges gravity laws and is building moved to put down roots and, finally, a sail boat in the basement; Mother is become normal. But in order to do so beautiful, wears high heels and keeps they should shush away the animals of stacks of books around herself; Mary, the all kind that keep coming to live there; nurse, speaks in strict Calabrese dialect, to shut the doors and the windows to can’t read and her heart is bigger than keep the wind at bay; to stop sleeping the garden around the house. Then there all together on the floor to enjoy the are the three children: Marco, struggling moonlight... But what if the planimetry of with puberty; Gioele, stuttering and a happy family is just that?

LIA PIANO was born in Genoa in 1972. She has been working with his father at the Renzo Piano Foundation since 2004. She lives between Paris, Genoa and any other place in the world.

“An original story, fairy and funny, about a childhood and a life, where the only true privilege is happiness.” “Il Libraio”

BOMPIANI Pages: 160 Rightholder: RIGHTS LIST Publication: August 2019 Rosaria Carpinelli Price: e 15,00 29 FICTION Aurelio Picca The Greatest Criminal in Rome Was a Friend of Mine IL PIÙ GRANDE CRIMINALE DI ROMA È STATO AMICO MIO

A look straight into the life of a criminal Bianciardi, a man living in a small that has never been told before. pensione on Lake Albano. At the age of Fiction is intertwined with testimonies twenty, not even, Alfredo meets Lallo selected from courtroom trial documents. and is stricken by him. He becomes his accomplice, except he has never killed. Seven homicides, four kidnappings, eleven Today, while recalling his friendship and sentencings, two successful escapes from almost filial relationship with the ferocious prison. Ludovino De Sanctis is a name criminal, Alfredo goes back over his own that made Rome tremble in the Sixties. life. He goes around with a cattle-gun, Called “The Beast” as well as “Lallo and wants to kill or die. In his head the Lame”, he took part in robberies there is only one track: the lullaby his with the underworld Marsigliesi clan, daughter Monique used to sing as a child. and was a heinous assassin. Never has Monique, like Lallo’s daughter, who has literature or cinema told his story before. suffered violence, and must be revenged... The protagonist of this story is Alfredo

AURELIO PICCA was born in Velletri. He has published, amongst other Bellissima (1999), Sacrocuore (2003), Via Volta della morte works, the compendium Per punizione (1990), the collection (2006), Se la fortuna è nostra (2011, Premio Hemingway of short stories La schiuma (1992), and the novels L’esame and Premio Flaiano). Bompiani has published Addio (2012), di maturità (1995), I mulatti (1996), Tuttestelle (1998, Un giorno di gioia (2014) and the civil poem L’Italia è Premio Alberto Moravia, Superpremio Grinzane Cavour), morta, io sono l’Italia (2011).

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“Marvellous and wicked: Picca’s Rome, as it has always been.” Corrado Augias

“Reading Aurelio Picca is a pleasure that leaves you exhausted, wanting to start again, but not immediately. You have to catch your breath.” Paolo Fallai, “Corriere della Sera”

“Aurelio Picca’s verbal exuberance is equal only to that of his writing: it can start from classicism but turn lightning-fast into something very visceral, carnal, until it reaches the forms of the most extreme provocation.” “Il Venerdì di Repubblica”

BOMPIANI Pages: 256 RIGHTS LIST Publication: July 2020 Price: e 17,00 30 FICTION Alcide Pierantozzi The Inconvenience of Being Loved L’INCONVENIENTE DI ESSERE AMATI

A young musician who returns to her child in a tiring marriage, and falls Abruzzo from Milan, his passion for his in love with her, against all his logical aunt, his desire to love without prejudice, thoughts and predictions. Victim of a breaking away from rules. brutal man, Sonia becomes the centre of a new project for Paride, but he will Paride is 33 years old and dreams of have to leave again to make it work. becoming a famous singer, but maybe it’s Around them, Manolo, the beach boy, too late for him. His secret relationship sensitive and intriguing under his bully’s with an older and powerful man suddenly skin; Gianmaria, the small nephew; and ceases. He has no choice but to leave a crowd of marginal characters, like Milan and go back to Abruzzo, to live the forgetful ex-teacher and the Korean in his grandparents’ house together acrobatic diver, populating the days and with his uncle and his uncle’s family. nights of the Riviera. Here Paride gets to know Sonia, his beautiful and surly aunt, trapped with

ALCIDE PIERANTOZZI was born in 1985 in San Benedetto del Tronto. He published his first bookUno in diviso in 2006, also as a graphic novel. This is his first title with Bompiani. He writes for newspapers and magazines.

A disarming and painful story, that tells us how complex it is to understand what attracts us and to which extent we can fight to love and be loved.

BOMPIANI Pages: 256 RIGHTS LIST Publication: March 2020 Price: e 16,00 31 FICTION Alessandro Raveggi Big Karma. Carlo Coccioli’s Lives GRANDE KARMA. VITE DI CARLO COCCIOLI

An on-the-road novel on the footsteps chases his traces around the world. Coccioli of one of the most enigmatic Italian was a very original author who wrote in Italian, writers, Carlo Coccioli, on his 100th birth Spanish and French, a partisan, an animal anniversary. rights guru, the first one to openly speak about the challenges facing homosexuals in Following the great success of Piccolo Karma Catholic Italy. Close to Malaparte and Cocteau, will we finally get to read the mysterious he was a finalist of Premio Campiello. Perhaps Grande Karma? Author and critic Walter Siti it was the multifaceted nature of his genius wrote: “One of the most striking elements in which caused his fall into oblivion. Travelling Coccioli’s narration is the genuine authenticity between Mexico, Paris and Florence, and with which he refuses the idea of a literature above all, on the fine line between reality independent from life.” In such a spirit Raveggi and fiction, this book uses the instruments has chosen to tell us about the writer through of art to explore the enigma of one of the story of his own life, recounting the the most menacing and fascinating adventures of a young researcher who intellectuals of the twentieth century.

ALESSANDRO RAVEGGI (1980) lives in Florence and teaches Literature at New York He also edited the anthology of short stories Panamericana University. He founded and directed the literary magazine (2016). He writes about books and culture for national “The FLR”. He wrote the novel Nella vasca dei terribili and international magazines, amongst which “Wired” piranha (2012); a collection of short stories Il grande regno and “Esquire”. He is foreign fiction editor at LiberAria dell’emergenza (2016), four collections of poems, a book on publishing house. Italo Calvino, and an introduction to David Foster Wallace.

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“Make yourself evanescent, be more elusive than a cloud.” Jean Cocteau to Carlo Coccioli

“Big Karma is a self-reflecting amusement park that reflects itself, a very accurate love story. Because that’s the only way we can keep the memory of someone alive: by making it a love story.” Elena Stancanelli, “Rivista Studio”

“A very compelling travel and adventure novel.” Angelo Ferracuti, “Il Manifesto”

“A novel that stands out in our landscape for modernity and structural freshness.” Vanni Santoni, Linus

BOMPIANI Pages: 288 RIGHTS LIST Publication: July 2020 Price: e 18,00 32 FICTION Igiaba Scego The Colour Line. Lafanu Brown’s Grand Tour LA LINEA DEL COLORE. IL GRAND TOUR DI LAFANU BROWN

Italy, the last years of 19th century. the indignation bursts out. In that very A black American woman painter. moment an American woman, a painter, Italy, 2019. An Italian woman writer Lafanu Brown, who has been living in of Ethiopian origins, an expert in Rome for years, is strolling around the colonialism. An intense historical novel city. She is black and the rage of the that looks at our past out of love for our crowd takes it out on her, but a man future. sees it all and saves her. His name is Ulisse, and Lafanu tells her story: her December 26th, 1887: at Dogali, birth in a Chippewa tribe, abolitionism Eritrea, five hundred Italian soldiers are and violence, the big choice that took her killed during a fight against Ethiopian onboard a ship to England and Italy, far troops. When the news get to Rome from love but possibly closer to freedom.

IGIABA SCEGO was born in Rome in 1974. She writes for “Internazionale”, “Lo straniero”, “La Repubblica”. Among her books: Pecore nere, Oltre Babilonia, La mia casa è dove sono (2011 Mondello Prize), Roma negata.

SCEGO’S FIRST NOVEL,BEYOND BABYLON, HAS BEEN PUBLISHED BY TWO LINES PRESS WITH A FOREWORD BY JHUMPA LAHIRI.

BOMPIANI Pages: 384 Rightholder: RIGHTS LIST Publication: February 2020 Piergiorgio Nicolazzini Price: e 19,00 Literary Agency 33 FICTION Francesca Scotti Vital Capacity CAPACITÀ VITALE

A piercing novel about the struggle to with Damiano, Nora, Enrico, Nora’s 15 find a centre for oneself. y.o. daughter Zoe, and Matteo. They go diving together, as usual, but Nora An underwater incident, a girl alone, a doesn’t resurface and the holidays ends young lawyer bored with her job. The tale in a tragic way. Some months later, Zoe of a woman stuck between vocation and shows up at Adele’s doorstep and the moral, selfishness and generosity. young woman decides to welcome the lonely girl. Her new relationships with Adele is a young lawyer who never Zoe and Matteo compels her to face pauses or relaxes apart from when scuba responsibilities and rooting, something diving with some fellows. During one she’s always fled. of these short holidays she meets again

FRANCESCA SCOTTI was born in Milan. After her law degree she started writing short stories and novels and now lives between Italy and Japan. Bompiani also published Ellissi (2017).

“Francesca Scotti’s strength lies in her penetrating descriptive ability, in her fine instinct to find the biological matter the life is made of, in her subtle earing keen to find in a handful of sounds the meaning of a story.” “La Lettura – Corriere della Sera”

BOMPIANI Pages: 160 RIGHTS LIST Publication: September 2019 Price: e 15,00 34 FICTION Umberto Silva Turmac Bleu A CURA DI MARTA BARONE

Family ties, Rome in the Sixties, loving liveliest ever, brimming with creative and letting go: a charming novel built on energy and intellectual engagement: the short stories told in an exquisitely spare right place to thrive for a Renaissance literary prose by an eclectic filmmaker man such as Umberto Silva. Who then and analyst. steered to psychoanalysis and made another job of it. Turmac Bleu collects Umberto Silva is one of a kind. As the best of his literary writing, originally beautiful as an actor (and he was an actor scattered in short stories and poetry in his youth), an art historian, a director, collections: the young, talented Marta a critic, a screenwriter, he involved all Barone, author of the much acclaimed his friends (among which Moravia and Sunken City, worked closely with him in Raffaele La Capria) in his movie projects. order to build up from his writings the The Roman milieu was at the time the novel of his life.

UMBERTO SILVA Born in 1943 in Northern Italy, as a young man he settled in Rome where he worked as a reviewer, actor, director and filmmaker, taking part in the brilliant cultural life of the city. Then he devoted his life to psychoanalysis. He now lives in Padova.

BOMPIANI Pages: 240 RIGHTS LIST Publication: Spring 2021 Price: e 16,00 35 FICTION Alice Zanotti Every Missed Meeting An Imaginary Portrait of Amelia Rosselli TUTTI GLI APPUNTAMENTI MANCATI UN RITRATTO IMMAGINARIO DI AMELIA ROSSELLI

One of the most relevant and mysterious participation of a young woman in love, Italian intellectuals of 20th century comes who brightens every minimal detail and to life in these pages. freely imagines what history does not tell. She recalls the tearing relationship Amelia Rosselli was the daughter of with Rosselli’s mother and father, the anti-fascist activist and martyr Carlo many languages heard and spoken, the Rosselli and Alberto Moravia’s aunt; houses, the meetings, the books, and the she was a musician and an absolutely voices. Everything disassembles and re- unique poetess. Plenty has been assembles as if in an undertow, delivering written about her, but this book is a page after page the heart-breaking and work through her. Alice Zanotti has impossible portrait of a woman with a decided to tell her biography not as painful life, but with an extraordinary and a biographer, but with the visionary inimitable voice.

ALICE ZANOTTI was born in Bologna in 1985, and currently lives in Turin, where she works at “Circolo dei lettori”. Tutti gli appuntamenti mancati is her first book.

I came back, because I know something well only when I lose it, in the exact moment I arrive late, and miss the appointment.

BOMPIANI Pages: 192 RIGHTS LIST Publication: March 2021 Price: e 17,00 36 FICTION Athos Zontini Beautiful Indifference LA BELLA INDIFFERENZA

The story of a man who sees all the faces showing them in their whole inexpressive around him disappear. A book about nakedness. Gradually his loneliness grows, loneliness, isolation and mal de vivre. and he becomes more and more ferocious, thorny, unaffected by daily life and rituals. One day Ettore Corbo finds out he can no Indifferent to the political climate getting longer see people’s faces. They have been tenser around him, Ettore closes himself off replaced by a void, an oval void stretched the rest of the world while another possible over their faces like the one of mannequins. life seems to disclose, as absurd as the life Medical tests do not give measurable of a flat-faced mannequin can be. A tense results, and for Ettore, a tired accountant and terrifying book, cruel and merciless, working in the family business and trapped reflecting in the deformed story of an in a joyless marriage, there is no way to individual the indifferent drifting of an escape this partial blindness, a blindness entire world. concealing others from him; or perhaps

ATHOS ZONTINI lives in Naples and works as a screenwriter for the TV series Un posto al sole. Bompiani has also published his book Orfanzia (2016).

PRAISE FOR ORFANZIA

“A dense story, measured by the seasons and by a lean writing.” “Internazionale”

“A work with an admirable ability to transcribe what is incommunicable.” “Zest”

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BOMPIANI Pages: 180 RIGHTS LIST Publication: April 2020 Price: e 16,00 37 modern classics

BOMPIANI FICTION MODERN CLASSICS Gesualdo Bufalino The Plague Sower DICERIA DELL’UNTORE

A late 20th century classic, written in tuberculosis at a Palermo sanatorium just 1950, but published only in 1981 thanks after World War II. The narrator loves to Bufalino’s friend Leonardo Sciascia Marta, the ballerina, is a case in point, who discovered his talent. The story of a as this is a relationship that can work sanatorium where the feelings of death within the hospital only. The director of and being trapped are everywhere; the tale the sanatorium is jealous, even though of a community that is cut off from the rest he is more in love with the bottle than of the world and has to try and function with Marta. Guiding the reader through according to its own values and rules. a haunting landscape of doom, Bufalino evokes the horrors of wartime. Elegant “I visit myself as a foreign tourist”, and arresting, the writing moves seamlessly explains the narrator of this autobiographical beyond the particularity of individual novel as, from the distance of several experience to confront the mysteries decades, he explores his memories of two around which our lives ebb and flow. years spent undergoing treatment for

GESUALDO BUFALINO was born in Comiso, Sicily, in 1920 and died in 1996. He L’isola nuda (1988), Le menzogne della notte (1988, Premio was a teacher and a translator for many decades and Strega), Il matrimonio illustrato (1989), Saldi d’autunno spent a secluded life in his hometown, establishing himself (1990), Qui pro quo (1991), Argo il cieco (1992), Calende among the finest Italian writers of the 20th century only in greche (1992), Il Guerrin Meschino (1993), Museo d’ombre his late years with Diceria dell’untore, which gained the (1993), Bluff di parole (1994), Tommaso e il fotografo cieco 1981 Supercampiello Prize. Among his book, all published (1996), Dizionario dei personaggi di romanzo (2000). by Bompiani: L’uomo invaso (1986), Il malpensante (1987),

WINNER OF THE 1981 SUPERCAMPIELLO PRIZE

BOMPIANI MODERN Pages: 240 RIGHTS LIST CLASSICS Publication: 1981 (1992, 2016) Price: e 12,00 39 FICTION MODERN CLASSICS Silvio D’Arzo The Others’ House and Other Stories CASA D’ALTRI E ALTRI RACCONTI

A new edition celebrating 100 years by a crucial question about life, difficult since the author’s birth. to articulate and with no comforting answers. As with other stories in this Described by Eugenio Montale as “a collection, Silvio D’Arzo finds, in perfect story”, The Others’ House the continuous oscillation between takes us deep into the harsh Apennine Arcadia and chronicle, the solution to scenery, from which two figures a problem common to all authors of his emerge: a poor old woman leading the generation: writing about the society of miserable existence of a laundress, and their time without impoverishing it and a mountain priest. Both are tormented themselves.

SILVIO D’ARZO (1920-1952), real name Ezio Comparoni, was an atypical and Corsiero. His work contains echoes of his beloved English solitary figure in the Italian literary panorama of the 1900s, masters like Conrad, Stevenson and Chesterton. Bompiani and an author whose work was not abundant but of extremely has published Essi pensano ad altro, also edited by Roberto high quality, in particular the novel All’insegna del Buon Carnero.

EDITED BY ROBERTO CARNERO

BOMPIANI MODERN Pages: 224 RIGHTS LIST CLASSICS Publication: March 2020 Price: e 11,00 40 FICTION MODERN CLASSICS Marina Jarre Distant Fathers I PADRI LONTANI

An extraordinary author to rediscover. devoid of any nostalgic fluff. The family The author’s masterpiece, the book figures and environment – an elusive and in which her precise, poetic, and very handsome father, a cultured and extraordinary writing reaches its peak. severe mother, a sister, the grandparents, the new family Marina creates in Italy – A story in autobiographic form, that undergo a strict perspective check. The unfurls from the author’s native country, narrative voice speaks to itself, to the key Latvia, during the 1920s and 30s to the characters in the narrator’s life and to the Waldensian Valleys just outside the reader, facing with courage the passage metropolitan spread of Turin, and in the from childhood to adolescence and the city itself in the 80s, but with a narration relationship with inaccessible parents.

MARINA JARRE was born in Riga, Latvia, in 1925, and lived in Italy from accento straniero, Viaggio a Ninive, Galambra, Ascanio e 1935 until her death in 2016. The characters’ psychological Margherita, Tre giorni alla fine di luglio , Un altro pezzo di analysis, cultural identity and autobiographical themes are mondo, Ti ho aspettato, Simone, Ritorno in Lettonia (winner the central points of her novels and stories. Here we recall Il of the 2004 Grinzane Cavour Prize), Il silenzio di Mosca and tramviere impazzito, Negli occhi di una ragazza, Un leggero Fuochi.

WINNER OF 2004 GRINZANE CAVOUR PRIZE WITH RITORNO IN LETTONIA

“Marina Jarre is an original, powerful and incisive writer... Her works – true, small- scale, essential masterpieces – have found passionate readers and critics and have an indisputable place in Italian literature of the past fifty years.” Claudio Magris “Upon all the things in her life, Jarre casts the same detached, alienating and slightly ironic gaze.” Marta Barone

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BOMPIANI MODERN Pages: 192 RIGHTS LIST CLASSICS Publication: April 2021 Price: e 11,00 41 FICTION MODERN CLASSICS Alberto Moravia Short Stories 1927-1951 I RACCONTI 1927-1951

Alberto Moravia’s best-known collection was awarded the 1952 Strega Prize of short stories, winner of the Strega and features some of the author’s most Prize in 1952. famous stories: Cortigiana stanca, Delitto al circolo del tennis, La provinciale and The book, originally published in 1952, Fine di una relazione. These short stories reunites the majority of the short stories put Alberto Moravia in an absolutely written by Moravia between 1927 and relevant position within the 20th century 1951, all of them previously published in Italian literary landscape. Against shorter collections (such as La bella vita, a middle-class background, highly 1935, L’imbroglio, 1937 and L’amante hypocritical, based upon money power, infelice, 1943). The first date back to indifference and insincere love affairs, the first years of Moravia’s activity as a Moravia offers us characters struggling writer, the age of Gli indifferenti, and with doubts and ambiguities from which already show a great mastery of both it seems impossible to redeem. technique and expression. The collection

ALBERTO MORAVIA (Rome 1907-1990), was a writer, a journalist, an essayist, romani and La noia. In 1952 he was awarded the Strega Prize for a travel reporter and a playwright. He is one of the most his short stories, blacklisted by the Church. Many of his novels important Italian novelists of the 20th century. He contributed have been made into films, includingLa ciociara by Vittorio to newspapers such as “La Stampa”, “Il Corriere della Sera” De Sica, Il disprezzo by Jean-Luc Godard and Il conformista by and “L’Espresso”. Among his most famous books translated Bernardo Bertolucci. worldwide: Gli indifferenti, La ciociara, La romana, Racconti

BOMPIANI MODERN Pages: 636 RIGHTS LIST CLASSICS Publication: September 2020 Price: e 18,00 42 FICTION MODERN CLASSICS Alberto Moravia America and Its Contradictions L’AMERICA DEGLI ESTREMI

“There are just a few countries that from East to West Coast, with all awake in the traveller’s soul such their contradictions, from wealth to different, vivid and hostile reactions as misery, from freedom to its distortions. the United States.” This book, thanks to lost and found documents, maps and diaries that make Alberto Moravia had been dreaming of us follow Moravia’s journeys, collects America since he was a child. He went most of its articles about America into there many times, as a correspondent: a reportage offering a thirty-year vision in 1935-36, in 1955, in 1968 and in upon that country by a great Italian 1969, writing lucid and foreseeing author. articles about the US in their entirety,

ALBERTO MORAVIA (Rome 1907-1990), was a writer, a journalist, an essayist, romani and La noia. In 1952 he was awarded the Strega Prize for a travel reporter and a playwright. He is one of the most his short stories, blacklisted by the Church. Many of his novels important Italian novelists of the 20th century. He contributed have been made into films, includingLa ciociara by Vittorio to newspapers such as “La Stampa”, “Il Corriere della Sera” De Sica, Il disprezzo by Jean-Luc Godard and Il conformista by and “L’Espresso”. Among his most famous books translated Bernardo Bertolucci. worldwide: Gli indifferenti, La ciociara, La romana, Racconti

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Winner of the 1965 Campiello Prize, girl. Following a heavy political defeat this novel imposed Pomilio as one of Mario starts doubting his convictions the greatest Italian novelists of his and Amelia’s father convinced him to time. A novel about about the risks that a religious marriage even if to Amelia’s lay behind compromise and shifting eyes this is a terrible humiliation for alliances. Marco’s ideals. The two of them will lead a wealthy life, though deprived of the Teramo, Abruzzi, 1948. Marco Berardi, previous harmony: Amelia will miscarry a young high-school teacher and local while Marco will be overwhelmed by a secretary of the Socialist Party, is deep self-contempt. engaged with Amelia, a rich catholic

MARIO POMILIO (1921-1990) was author of many works of fiction, all of them about dilemmas, religious, civil, social, political or moral ones: L’uccello nella cupola (1954), Il testimone (1956), Il nuovo corso (1959), Il cimitero cinese (1969), Il quinto evangelio (1975, Bompiani 2000), Il cane sull’Etna. Bompiani also published Il Natale del 1833 (2003).

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A collection of rediscovered poems measuring himself with words, form and written by a young Carmelo Bene. sound; experimenting with their effect. A precious unpublished work. This work is also a private diary, where love, solitude, a desire to escape and for Written between 1954 and 1958, these independence blend into a story about poems were found amid the family observing what is around; the outer papers by the author’s nephew Stefano landscape reverberating and reflecting De Mattia, and represent an important into the inner world. phase in the literary life of Carmelo As always, reading Carmelo Bene’s Bene: his enthusiasm as a young artist words conveys deep emotions.

CARMELO BENE (1937-2002), was an actor, a film director, a playwright, and one the most admired and discussed writers in Italy. Bompiani has published a collection of all his works, Opere, in the Classici Bompiani series.

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The unpublished poetic works of Alberto pretty much unknown to the public. The Moravia: intimate texts that dialogue with 83 poems of this book, almost entirely the rest of his books, a mature reflection previously unpublished, cast a different on literature. light upon one of the main writers of Italian modern literature. The themes Alberto Moravia wrote poetry in his are deeply Moravian: sex, travelling, past, childhood and adolescence but his memory, to which the author gives in in a verses of the late 1970s and 1980s were narrative poetic style.

ALBERTO MORAVIA pseudonym of Alberto Pincherle (Rome 1907-1990), was a writer, Racconti romani and La noia. In 1952 he was awarded the a journalist, an essayist, a travel reporter and a playwright. He Strega Prize for his short stories, blacklisted by the Church. is one of the most important Italian novelists of the 20th century. Many of his novels have been made into films, includingLa He contributed to newspapers such as “La Stampa”, “Il Corriere ciociara by Vittorio De Sica, Il disprezzo by Jean-Luc Godard and della Sera” and “L’Espresso”. Among his most famous books Il conformista by Bernardo Bertolucci. translated worldwide: Gli indifferenti, La ciociara, La romana,

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ANNALISA AMBROSIO attended the Holden School and edited together with Alessandro Baricco the high school anthology La seconda luna.

BOMPIANI PHILOSOPHY Pages: 160 RIGHTS LIST Publication: September 2019 Price: e 14,00 49 NON FICTION LITERATURE Marino Niola Becoming Don Juan DIVENTARE DON GIOVANNI

The lady’s man par excellance is a true bigger category is the one of those who myth in European literature and theatre. would have loved to be Don Juan but couldn’t. Who is Don Juan and why “There are three kinds of men: those is this mythical figure so strong in our who believe they are Don Juan; those imagination? We know he was a seducer who believe the were Don Juan; and but this is just one face of his character, those who believe they might have been which Marino Niola investigates Don Juan but never wanted to” – Ortega throughout all Europe. y Gasset used to say. But maybe the

MARINO NIOLA is an anthropologist and teaches at Suor Orsola Benincasa foreign newspapers. Bompiani also published Miti d’oggi, Univerisity in Naples. He writes for “ll Venerdì” di “La Hashtag. Cronache da un paese connesso and Il presente in Repubblica”, “L’Espresso”, “D. La Repubblica” and other poche parole.

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The fifth volume of cardinal Martini’s texts, Martini’s limpid voice rises above opera omnia. the diffident chatter of our daily lives, explaining the importance of identifying The cardinal of dialogue is a befitting with others, of opening ourselves up to the moniker which well describes Carlo possibility of welcome, and of affirming Maria Martini and his tireless efforts to our own identities through contact not promote positive relationships with the prevarication. In Martini’s eyes, the Other and with all the names and faces encounter with Judaism represents an that word evokes: relationships with Jews, acknoledgment of Christianity’s roots; with Jewish communities around the and his 1990 speech to the city of Milan world and with Israel; relationships with entitled Noi e l’Islam anticipates today’s Christianity’s countless denominations; urgent need to recognise contemporary and relationships with Muslims. Without Islam as a major player in a society forgetting the major religions of the increasingly characterized by religious East. In this collection of over 100 pluralism.

CARLO MARIA MARTINI (Turin 1927 – Gallarate 2012) speeches and homilies, the first volume of which is entitled A Jesuit and a revered biblical scholar, Martini was the Le cattedre dei non credenti, followed in 2016 by I Vangeli, in Archbishop of Milan from 1980 to 2002 and was made 2017 by Giustizia, etica e politica nella città and in 2018 by Cardinal in 1983. In 2015 Bompiani began the process of La scuola della Parola. publishing the Cardinal’s collected writings, pastoral letters,

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BOMPIANI ETHICS Pages: 1136 RIGHTS LIST Publication: October 2020 Price: e 25,00 51 NON FICTION HISTORY Guglielmo Salotti A Brief History of Fascism BREVE STORIA DEL FASCISMO

A crucial analysis to comprehend a very than twenty years of Italian social life. complex period of Italian history. It means to historicize Fascism as a phenomenon deeply intertwined with To write a history of Fascism, from the the social, economical and political life birth of the Fasci di combattimento of those days, as a typical expression of in March 1919 up to the end of the the turmoil caused by the First World Repubblica Sociale in 1945, means to War and as a tentative Italian response write a history of Italy, a history of more to that crisis.

GUGLIELMO SALOTTI worked with Renzo De Felice for many years. He is author Bombacci da Mosca a Salò (1986), Propaganda ed of several historical essays such as Giuseppe Giulietti. irredentismo nel primo Novecento (1990). He writes for Il sindaco dei marittimi dal 1910 al 1953 (1982), Nicola “Nuova storia contemporanea” and “Clio”.

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A book that takes us through a our ancestors, come from Africa. Since surprising discovery of the European then, the two human species, different identity, which takes its strength from from each other in looks, culture and the plurality of shares it is made of. DNA, coexisted in Europe for millennia until the Neanderthals got extincted. New and old Europeans: to live side Out of their disappearence, through by side seems difficult today, but the migrations, contact and contaminations, same problem was faced 40 thousand the new population that nowadays we years ago, when the true Europeans, call European took shape. the Neanderthals, saw Cro-Magnons,

GUIDO BARBUJANI worked at the State University of New York and at London, Bompiani also published Tutto il resto è provvisorio, his latest Padua and Bologna Universities. Now he teaches Genetics novel, L’invenzione delle razze and Sillabario di genetica per at Ferrara University. He is also a novelist and an essayist. principianti.

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Ten lessons by one of the most gene interacts with the others and reacts important Italian geneticists to give us to what comes from the outside). That’s the bases of genetics and the tools to why we know if a child will have cystic understand science involving all of us. fibrosis, as it depends on just one gene, but we do not know if he or she will Our genome is a text: a book from the develop Parkinson Syndrome or cancer, past and a handbook for the future. We as they are complex diseases and depend have been able for some years to know on thousands of genes. This is the most what’s written in the genome, or better actual challenge geneticists have to face we know the letters (the genes) but are nowadays. quite unsure of their syntax (how each

GUIDO BARBUJANI worked at the State University of New York and at London, Bompiani also published Tutto il resto è provvisorio, his latest Padua and Bologna Universities. Now he teaches Genetics novel, L’invenzione delle razze and Europei senza se at Ferrara University. He is also a novelist and an essayist. e senza ma.

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A new edition of the best-selling essay different cultures and socio-economic first published in 2006 by the famous backgrounds? Through a fascinating geneticist. cultural and historical journey, the author reconstructs the stages of the The word “race” is back in fashion. debate on the biological basis of human But are we really sure we know what it diversity, from the earliest attempts at exactly means? And do we believe that racial classification up to modern DNA human species is composed by different studies, demonstrating that there is no biological races, like dogs or horses? scientific evidence of the existence of And do our genes impact on the way racial differences. we interact with people coming from

GUIDO BARBUJANI worked at the State University of New York and at London, Bompiani also published Tutto il resto è provvisorio, his latest Padua and Bologna Universities. Now he teaches Genetics novel, Sillabario di genetica per principianti and Europei at Ferrara University. He is also a novelist and an essayist. senza se e senza ma.

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I.T. isn’t complicated, if you know how the worst of its traps without demonising to use it. its benefits? How do we go about learning to use technology intelligently? I.T. has undeniably infiltrated every With the frank humour of someone aspect of our lives. Equally undeniably, who knows the subject all too well, we often don’t know how best to control Massimiano Bucchi guides us into the and use it, how to exploit its full potential world of information technology and its and how to neutralise its greatest proper use, in a series of short lessons dangers. From Google and Facebook to accompanied by practical exercises which Airbnb and Amazon, the Internet now each one of us can put to good use in our permeates and envelops our lives like a daily online lives. veritable spider’s web. How can we avoid

MASSIMIANO BUCCHI is Professor of Science, Technology and Society at the USA, UK, China and many other countries) and articles in University of Trento and has been a visiting professor at international journals such as Nature and Science. He is a several academic institutions in Asia, Europe and North frequent contributor to the culture section of “la Repubblica”. America. He is the author of over ten books (published in the Bompiani published Per un pugno di idee and Io & Tech.

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What are we talking about when we talk stories of intuitions that have changed about innovation? Massimiano Bucchi our lives, demonstrating their nature unveils the flesh and blood, unexpected, of non-linear, collective processes that intricated and very fascinating pathways cannot be ascribed to individual genius behind this overused term. but often from unexpected directions and sources. From culture to technique, from From the fork to the kalashnikov, from sport to cinema and food, the curious and the Fosbury flop to the first video game instructive narration of small turns which ever, this book weaves together the have resulted in great changes.

MASSIMIANO BUCCHI is Professor of Science, Technology and Society at the University other countries) and articles in international journals such as of Trento and has been a visiting professor at several academic Nature and Science. He is a frequent contributor to the culture institutions in Asia, Europe and North America. He is the author section of “la Repubblica”. Bompiani published Per un pugno of over ten books (published in the USA, UK, China and many di idee and Io & Tech.

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From the wheel to rockets and robots: shaped human existence and evolution. all the inventions that modified our lives Together with discoveries Caprara but also great hoaxes, false discoveries, reveals us also the lives of scientists frauds, delusions… who achieved them with their virtues, strength, weaknesses and plots. We are The history of the scientific discoveries offered a gripping and up-to-date story began with a chipped rock two million that gives us the complete picture of the years ago and went on faster and faster. results we gained through science and This book covers its fundamental technology, thanks to which we built the steps, telling us a long adventure that world we live in.

GIOVANNI CAPRARA Is scientific columnist for “Corriere della Sera” and author of Space Exploration at the Politecnico di Milano. He has been many books about history of science and space exploration, chairman of UGIS, Unione Italiani Scientifici. He was awarded published both in Europe and in the US. He curated the Space many prizes and an asteroid between Mars and Jupiter bears section at the Museo nazionale della scienza e della tecnologia his name. Bompiani also published Storia italiana dello “Leonardo da Vinci” in Milano and teaches History of the spazio.

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A collection of priests’ lives, among in many dioceses all around the world, secrets, faults, silences: from the but out of a wider and impellent debate seminary years to their pastoral life, about bachelor itself. During many a study on the less told-about effects years of research Marco Marzano has of the “sacralisation” of the religious collected many priests’ testimonies people. about their personal experiences, their sufferings, their solitude, doubts and The clergy chastity has been discussed certainties: we are now offered a big within the Catholic Church for picture of a religious community open to centuries. At the beginning of the 21st the world but also forced to keep quiet century it is again of crucial importance, and hide a part of their life instead of not only because of the sexual scandals fully living it. and the abuses on minors perpetrated

MARCO MARZANO is professor of Sociology at the Università di Bergamo and Quel che resta dei cattolici (2021), La società orizzontale among the founders of Etnografia e ricerca qualitativa (2017) and La chiesa immobile. Francesco e la rivoluzione review. He published Cattolicesimo magico (Bompiani 2009), mancata (2018).

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On the occasion of International again” are expressions now reduced to Holocaust Remembrance Day, a critical mantras of commemorative rhetoric. voice speaks outside the box. It is time to face the reality of daily facts, about the re-emergence of racist Valentina Pisanty’s analysis is based on a violence, of references to Nazi symbols painful, yet incontestable consideration: and negation theories. What has failed as the rhetoric of “the duty of memory” to work in the contribution given by (of the Holocaust and other trauma) Holocaust survivors? The author bravely progressively establishes itself in Europe looks into the abyss, analysing the stories and United States, we are witnessing of victims and witnesses with a critical the exponential growth of racism and eye, in order to help us understand what the return of xenophobic parties and went wrong. And perhaps, how to fix it. movements. “Lest we forget” and “Never

VALENTINA PISANTY is Professor of Semiology at Bergamo University, and has interpretazione with Roberto Pellerey (2004), La difesa della written several essays on interpretative semiotics, fables, razza (2006), L’irritante questione delle camere a gas (1998, humour, political speech, rhetoric of racism, and memory. enriched edition 2014). Bompiani has published Leggere la fiaba (1993), Semiotica e

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This is not a book on women and work. how will the work of tomorrow impact This is a book on the future of work, on our lives? How will people manage concerning everybody: women and men. time and space? How will relationships, However, feminine is the point of view identities, and ways of finding work that future work will have. evolve? One thing experts seem to agree on: in the future, the most sought after Current images of the future of work abilities will be “soft skills” (very difficult are catastrophic: machines substituting to replicate on machines). They are, people, automation systems disrupting for example, predisposition towards processes, big data used to control problem solving, the ability to work as productivity, and so on. Up until now, the part of a team, focus on interpersonal future of work has been mainly described communication, negotiating skills, the in the perspective of human-versus- managing of expectations, trust, and machine, a mostly masculine perspective. sharing. But this debate is missing relevant issues:

SILVIA ZANELLA is an expert in marketing for major Human Resource Guida al lavoro (2010), Social Recruiter (co-written with Anna companies, such as Jobpilot, Monster, Xing, The Adecco Group, Martini, 2017), Personal branding per le aziende (co-written and EY, mainly focusing on innovation and digital marketing. with Luigi Centenaro, 2019), and Digital Recruiter (co-written She combines her profession with an intense activity as with Anna Martini, 2019). speaker, journalist, and work coach. She is the author of Her website is www.silviazanella.com.

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An exceptional family and its stories “real woman” behind his uncle Guido’s narrated by a woman who gave name most famous creation, tells us everyday and address to one of the most iconic life stories, a life sometimes hard, characters of Italian comics. sometimes painful, always explosive and ironic. In the background, 1950s Milan, All happy families are alike, except this where everything was to be rebuilt: pop one: the Crepax’s are unique and perfect music, newspapers, fashion, a way of life. novel characters. Valentina Crepax, the

VALENTINA CREPAX (1952-2020), daughter of the label owner Franco and niece newspapers and reviews. She catalogued bizarre male of the cartoonist Guido, was born and lived in Milan. She specimens of the human race in books such as: Gli uomini: started working as a journalist for “la Repubblica” and istruzioni per l’uso and Tipi metropolitani. then wrote about women, men and things for many other

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Carlo Verdone tells us about himself evoking his family house and all the tales in a book made of memories and small it preserved. Now he goes back to his stories: family, affections, passions, memories with his taste for the human friends, Rome. comedy, his supreme attention to the other people (how they are, how they Memory is a box: to open it, to talk, how they move) and that look, both remember, to tell are natural actions sympathetic and critic, merciless and in this collection of stories by Carlo melancholic on Rome that we can find in Verdone. The actor and director had his movies. already worked on his memory in La casa sopra i portici (Bompiani 2012),

CARLO VERDONE was born in Rome in 1950 and is an actor, a director and a il giorno che t’ho incontrato, Al lupo al lupo, Perdiamoci di screenwriter. After working in theatres for many years he met vista, Viaggi di nozze, L’amore è eterno finché dura, Manuale Sergio Leone and thanks to him Verdone discovered his true d’amore, Il mio miglior nemico, Io loro e Lara, Posti in piedi vocation: cinema. He is author of many movies, such as Un in paradiso, Sotto una buona stella, L’abbiamo fatta grossa, sacco bello, Bianco, rosso e Verdone, Borotalco, In viaggio Benedetta follia, Si vive una volta sola. con papà, Io e mia sorella, Compagni di scuola, Maledetto

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Rope bridges, wood bridges, iron bridges, “once cast, a bridge can’t stop being a stone bridges. bridge without crumbling.” Bridges are part Boat bridges, snow bridges, colour bridges, of our physical and mental landscape but music bridges. are wonderful things to draw, too: famous Fifty bridges from all over the world to be monuments such as the Ponte Vecchio crossed on foot or with one’s imagination. in Florence or the Golden Gate in San Francisco, but also the precarious thread Bridges link people and cultures, easing between the Twin Towers for an acrobat, communication, or they devide them. They a treasure destroyed and rebuilt like the are both steady and fragile. Many ancient Mostar Bridge, a strip of iced snow among myths make them symbols of passage a glacier. And plenty of stories them from between faraway worlds. As Kafka said, side to side.

GIANCARLO ASCARI PIA VALENTINIS is an architect and a comic author, under the penname was born in Udine and lives in Cagliari. She works as an “Elfo”. He worked for “Linus”, “l’Unità”, “Il Corriere della illustrator for children books. In 2015 her first graphic novel, Sera”. He published the graphic novels Love Stores (2005), Ferriera, was awarded the Andersen Prize for the best comic Tutta colpa del ’68 (2008), Sarà una bella società (2012) and book. L’arte del complotto (2015).

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BOMPIANI Pages: 136 RIGHTS LIST Publication: October 2018 Price: e 15,00 65 ILLUSTRATED BOOKS Claudio Magris Story of Gali Gali STORIA DI GALI GALI ILLUSTRATED BY ALESSANDRO SANNA

Isles, waters and skies come alive and his dog, Zivil, are waiting for him, in Claudio Magris’ first illustrated ready to spend the night together. Gali book, enriched by Alessandro Sanna’s Gali loves flying, loves his friends, and watercolours. A story about friendship and despises birds different from him, such as love free from habit and rules. grey gulls. Taken astray by a storm, Gali Gali and meets a she-gull, a grey one, and Every day at sunset Gali Gali, a white finds out she is not so different from him seagull, lands in a garden where a man as he thought.

CLAUDIO MAGRIS ALESSANDRO SANNA was born in Trieste in 1939. He is a worldwide famous writer, was born in Nogara, Verona, in 1975. He lives in Mantua translator, essayist. He taught German Literature at Turin and and teaches at the Bologna Academy of Fine Arts. He was Trieste universities. Among his most famous books: Danubio awarded the Italian Andersen Prize for three times and (1986) and Microcosmi (1997, Strega Prize). longlisted to the International Andersen Prize. He is published worldwide.

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Dino is following a butterfly with a skull on its back through a dark wood: when he gets to trap it into a box, he hears it talk. Its name is Atropo, it belongs to the Night and tells him about the Timeless Castle, a sinister place inhabited by the Immortals, souls who escaped the Flood and are condemned to play a neverending chess match, unable to

GESUALDO BUFALINO was born in Comiso, Sicily, in 1920 and died in 1996. He L’isola nuda (1988), Le menzogne della notte (1988, Premio was a teacher and a translator for many decades and Strega), Il matrimonio illustrato (1989), Saldi d’autunno spent a secluded life in his hometown, establishing himself (1990), Qui pro quo (1991), Argo il cieco (1992), Calende among the finest Italian writers of the 20th century only in greche (1992), Il Guerrin Meschino (1993), Museo d’ombre his late years with Diceria dell’untore, which gained the (1993), Bluff di parole (1994), Tommaso e il fotografo cieco 1981 Supercampiello Prize. Among his book, all published (1996), Dizionario dei personaggi di romanzo (2000). by Bompiani: L’uomo invaso (1986), Il malpensante (1987),

BOMPIANI Pages: 64 RIGHTS LIST Publication: October 2020 Price: e 12,00 67 ILLUSTRATED TITLES Giuseppe Scaraffia The Other Half of Paris L’ALTRA METÀ DI PARIGI

An illustrated travel following the traces space: the Rive Droite and its inhabitants of artists who inhabited the most loved between 1920s and World War II. city in the world. This book is a special and intimate guide to the most beloved city in the world: follow Paris: the name itself is a kaleidoscope the addresses and you will meet stunning of pictures, events, characters. Giuseppe people such as Hemingway and Proust, Scaraffia chose to tell the story of a part of Joséphine Baker and Pablo Picasso. the Ville Lumière, caught in one time and

GIUSEPPE SCARAFFIA was born in Turin and lives in Rome, where he teaches French Literature at La Sapienza University. He was awarded the Grinzane – Beppe Fenoglio Prize for Cortigiane (2008). Bompiani also published Il romanzo della Costa Azzurra.

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BOMPIANI CHILDREN & YA Mario Bellini Design Explained to Children IL DESIGN SPIEGATO AI BAMBINI

One of the most renowned Italian world to make it better through everyday designers explains to little readers his way objects? Mario Bellini answers these of looking at nature and taking ideas and questions in his first book for children: a projects from there. travel into his world through photographs and drawings to catch the beauty and How to draw a chair? And why to draw a essential of those everyday objects we chair? Where do ideas feeding a designer’s don’t even stop to contemplate. mind come from? How to look at the

MARIO BELLINI was born in Milan in 1935. After his bachelor in architecture, he started working as a designer in 1960s. Designer-in-chief for Olivetti, he designed the first personal computer in the world. He worked for Renault, Cassina, B&B, Flou, Vitra and Kartell and received eight times the Compasso d’Oro Prize.

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BOMPIANI Pages: 32 RIGHTS LIST Publication: October 2018 Price: e 15,00 70 CHILDREN & YA Chiara Carminati Out of Focus FUORI FUOCO

1914-1918. The story of a family told by a her sister will roam the countryside bright young girl. Talking about war from looking for a grandmother that they had the viewpoint of one who doesn’t make it never met before. Through the voice of Jole – a penetrating, vivid first person “When war broke out we were all narrator – their experiences are those pleased”. Jolanda known as Jole was of all the women who stay out of the already working at the spinning-wheel line of fire, far from the front, blurred, at the age of thirteen during the almost invisible, while History proceeds, summer of 1914. It didn’t take her ruthlessly. Thirteen narrated images, long to understand and suffer for the like photos missing from a family album, consequences of a conflict that sends punctuate a narration based on diaries, the men away and leaves the women testimonies, reports and documents. alone. Separated from her mother, traumatised by the bombings, she and

CHIARA CARMINATI is the author of stories, poems and plays for children and her books L’estate dei segreti (Einaudi Ragazzi), Rime youngsters. She holds workshops and meetings to promote chiaroscure (with Bruno Tognolini) and Mare (Rizzoli), Parto reading in libraries, schools and bookshops. Specialised (Panini), L’ultima fuga di Bach (rueBallu) and the handbooks in the didactics of poetry, she gives courses for teachers Fare poesia (Mondadori) and Perlaparola. Bambini e and librarians, in Italy and abroad. With the musicians of ragazzi nelle stanze della poesia (Equilibri). In 2012 she Linea Armonica she has realised performances of poetry and received the Andersen Prize as Best Author. Her website is narrative that combine words, music and images. Among www.parolematte.it.

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ORBIL PRIZE (INDEPENDENT CHILDREN’S BOOKSELLERS PRIZE) 2015 SPECIAL ANDERSEN PRIZE 2015 ALVARO-BIGIARETTI PRIZE 2015 LAURA ORVIETO PRIZE 2015 STREGA RAGAZZI PRIZE 2016

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BOMPIANI Pages: 208 RIGHTS LIST Publication: September 2014 Price: e 12,00 71 CHILDREN & YA Nicola Cinquetti The Giro of 1944 IL GIRO DEL ‘44

A novel about bikes and war: a city war. Four years later he and his family boy, an evacuated family, a gang of are displaced in the countryside where countryside kids. there’s nothing to do. Luckily he got his bike. But that gets stolen by a mean girl Giro d’Italia, June 1940. Martino follows who looks like the boss of a local gang. the tour with his grandpa and his best Without stopping dreaming about his friend: they all support Gino Bartali own Giro d’Italia, Martino will get closer but there’s a young man who seems to to this strange girl, experience death and threaten him, Fausto Coppi, who’s going war and live some of the darkest pages of to win his first tour. Martino, though, Italian history. Nicola Cinquetti wrote a has nothing to cheer for, because the day strong novel about war and life. after the end of the Giro Italy enters the

NICOLA CINQUETTI is a poet and writer. He teaches Philosophy in Verona. With Ultimo venne il verme (Bompiani) he was finalist at the Strega Ragazzi Prize.

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SHORTLISTED AT THE 2017 STREGA RAGAZZI PRIZE WITH ULTIMO VENNE IL VERME

WINNER OF THE 2020 ORBIL PRIZE

WINNER OF THE 2020 ANDERSEN AWARD

BOMPIANI Pages: 208 RIGHTS LIST Publication: March 2019 Price: e 13,00 72 CHILDREN & YA Carlo Collodi & Lorenzo Mattotti The Adventures of Pinocchio LE AVVENTURE DI PINOCCHIO

The most beloved classic of Italian that breathes both with the ambiguous children’s literature illustrated and phantasmagorical spirit and aim of by one of the most important Collodi and with Mattotti’s – or rather contemporary artists. Mattotti’s Collodi’s – vision.

Lorenzo Mattotti has been working for ages around one of the most famous characters of world literature: Pinocchio. The tale of the wooden puppet who comes alive and must face many difficulties in order to become a real boy seems to find in the illustrator’s work an ideal mirror. What comes from this exceptional encounter is an artist’s book

CARLO COLLODI LORENZO MATTOTTI (1826-1890), pen name of Carlo Lorenzini, was the author is one of the most important contemporary illustrators. of many books for children, but his fame is bound to his He was born in Brescia in 1954 but lives and works in masterpiece, The Adventures of Pinocchio, unanimously Paris. His work has been released to widespread acclaim regarded as one of the most important novels of 19th from critics and readers since 1970s. In 1983 he founded, century Italian literature. together with other artists, the Valvoline group that marked a turning point in contemporary graphic novel production worldwide. He was awarded the Bratislava Grand Prix, one of the most important prizes for children’s literature.

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73 CHILDREN & YA Matteo Corradini If the Night Has a Heart SE LA NOTTE HA CUORE

An altar boy in the grip of doubt and a dances and chases in the dark, the two majorette who doesn’t speak. The escape kids go in search of a series of messiahs, from a tedious summer school camp, an people who can save us. However it’s adventure in one night. not so easy to distinguish friend from foe at night. Rodento, Mazurka, the creepy Codini Donna is the name with which Barbara Zagaglia, Asmodeo the dog, the the protagonist of this story introduces delicate Ortenzia... Who are they? Whose himself to the world. Dressed as an side are they on? altar boy, he decides to run away from Perhaps it’s all just a nightmare, a the summer school camp he is being hallucination. But Andra can finally face confined to during a big party he has no the man who took away her voice and wish to attend. His accomplice is Andra, her dreams, and Codini can speak to his who doesn’t speak and wears a majorette father, at last. The rising new day won’t costume. The night is long and populated necessarily be better, but will be different by bizarre encounters. Amid nocturnal for sure.

MATTEO CORRADINI was born in 1975. He is a Hebraist and a writer. He won the 2018 Andersen Award, and edited the latest Italian version of The Diary of Anna Frank, published by Rizzoli. Among his literary works, La repubblica delle farfalle, a story set in the Theresienstadt ghetto.

BOMPIANI Pages: 352 RIGHTS LIST Publication: June 2020 Price: e 15,00 74 CHILDREN & YA Paolo Di Paolo The Flying Cow LA MUCCA VOLANTE

From the author of Mandami tanta vita, that same evening, in the pouring rain, shortlisted for the 2013 Strega Prize armed with a torch and escorted by his dog Macchia, he goes back to school A cow swollen up like a balloon, the and discovers a cow blown up like a mysterious disappearance of an elderly balloon. Is it dead? The next day the schoolmistress: a light-hearted, poetic cow isn’t there anymore. Where’s it tale about the weight of (white) lies gone? This mystery runs parallel with another mystery – the disappearance A corner of the schoolyard has been of dear Mistress Pompelmo some years marked off by a strip of red and white earlier. A whole band of kids is eager plastic. And the teacher forbids the to understand why grown-ups go to so children to go outside during breaktime. much trouble to hide truth. Leonardo is determined to investigate:

PAOLO DI PAOLO born in Rome in 1983, works as a journalist, critic and writer. He is the curator of Indro Montanelli’s works and letters. Among his books, the novels Dove eravate tutti, Mandami tanta vita, Una storia quasi solo d’amore and La mucca volante.

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“Subtle and pensive.” “La Lettura – Il Corriere della Sera”

“The rare opportunity to savour a children’s tale conceived in childhood” Paola Capriolo, “Il Corriere della Sera”

“A heartwarming story.” “la Repubblica”

BOMPIANI Pages: 96 RIGHTS LIST Publication: September 2014 Price: e 11,00 75 CHILDREN & YA Paolo Di Paolo Daddy Gugol PAPÀ GUGOL

By the author of La mucca volante, they don’t waste time answering, shortlisted for the Strega Ragazzi Prize, because they don’t usually know the a book about a child wondering about answer. They just say: Gugol it! Thus, the world surrounding him and looking even a child knows how to surf the for answers at all costs. net. Paolo Di Paolo tells the story of a fatherless child, who has thousands of Grown-ups are distracted and careless. questions and nobody to answer them. If a curious child asks them something

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“With poetical irony Di Paolo depicts relationships between parents too busy to answer kids’ questions and kids looking for answers that don’t come from the Internet only.” “la Repubblica”

BOMPIANI Pages: 96 RIGHTS LIST Publication: April 2017 Price: e 9,00 76 CHILDREN & YA Luca Doninelli The Detective Wickson Alieni TRE CASI PER L’ISPETTORE WICKSON ALIENI

The investigations of a detective so banal man, and Roger T.L.L., the man with as to be invisible. But... 364 teeth, one for each day of the year (almost). Chief inspector Frank Fellikke, Wickson Alieni is an ordinary detective, with his one and only hair named Filippo, so ordinary that nobody sees him. This counts on his cunning. Who stole the could look like a flaw, but is his greatest clouds? the herrings? five p.m.? We don’t power: without being noticed he can solve know yet, but Wickson will find out. a lot of cases, expecially those involving Maybe. wicked Milton Bobbitt, the pear-headed

LUCA DONINELLI was born in 1956. After spending years in Desenzano on Lake Garda, he now lives in Milan. He published Fa’ che questa strada non finisca mai (2014) and Le cose semplici (2015; Selezione Campiello Prize 2016) for Bompiani.

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THE SECOND NOVEL IN THE SERIES TO BE PUBLISHED IN SPRING 2021

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BOMPIANI Pages: 160 RIGHTS LIST Publication: March 2018 Price: e 12,00 77 CHILDREN & YA Umberto Eco, Eugenio Carmi Three Tales TRE RACCONTI

Now in paperback. Three stories for handed Martian. A pompous emperor readers of all ages resulting from the who insists on bringing civilization creative meeting of a writer and a painter. to a small, innocent, happy planet. Three stories told by Umberto Eco and Melancholic atoms encased into a bomb illustrated by Eugenio Carmi, aimed to and a general who wants war at any cost. kids and adults as well. Three suspicious cosmonauts and a six-

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BOMPIANI Pages: 112 RIGHTS LIST Publication: October 2015 Price: e 12,00 78 CHILDREN & YA Alberto Moravia Prehistory Stories STORIE DELLA PREISTORIA

The birth of the world according to a that wins as the reader looks at these great author. characters with human understanding, that is indulgency over their and his own Alberto Moravia wrote these stories in whims and weirdness. 1982, as a collection of fables on the creation of the world, a world inhabited by animals of all shapes and kinds. As it always happens, these fables use animal characteristics and adventures to investigate those of mankind, its vices and follies. But in the end it’s hope

ALBERTO MORAVIA pseudonym of Alberto Pincherle (Rome 1907-1990), was a writer, Racconti romani and La noia. In 1952 he was awarded the a journalist, an essayist, a travel reporter and a playwright. He Strega Prize for his short stories, blacklisted by the Church. is one of the most important Italian novelists of the 20th century. Many of his novels have been made into films, includingLa He contributed to newspapers such as “La Stampa”, “Il Corriere ciociara by Vittorio De Sica, Il disprezzo by Jean-Luc Godard and della Sera” and “L’Espresso”. Among his most famous books Il conformista by Bernardo Bertolucci. translated worldwide: Gli indifferenti, La ciociara, La romana,

BOMPIANI Pages: 256 RIGHTS LIST Publication: May/November 2017 Price: e 13,00 79 CHILDREN & YA Wu Ming 4 The Little Kingdom IL PICCOLO REGNO

A summer tale. Four boys in the English and of friendship with Ned, a war hero countryside, the ghost of a warrior and one of the rare adults who know awakened from his sleep, a season in how to talk to children. One day a sheep which everything changes. falls into a mound of earth, revealing the tomb of an ancient warrior from which A tribute to the classics of English the protagonist steals a gold bracelet: literature for youngsters, a story set in that the ghost seeks him out, leaving a trail of Golden Age which ends where childhood blood next to his room, taking on the form ends. of a black mastiff. Among the lies and the mysteries of the grown-ups, the brutality The English countryside, in the Thirties. of two excessively blonde twins and a For four boys it’s the time of conversations tragedy, the Gente Bassa (Low People) are with the animals, of scuffles in the village, sadly to discover that life is unfair. of the tree-house with its hidden secrets,

WU MING 4 is a member of the Wu Ming collective of writers adopted a nom de plume composed of the collective – authors of the novel Q (Einaudi 1999) under the name plus a number. Wu Ming 4 is the solo author of the pseudonym “Luther Blissett”. Besides the group novels novel Stella del mattino (Einaudi 2008), centred on the (54, Manituana, Altai), figure of Lawrence of Arabia. The collective’s site is www. Wu Ming have also written solo novels, travel stories, wumingfoundation.com reportages and essays on literature. Each member has

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“A literary jewel.” “Zazienews”

“It’s like reading a classic of English children’s literature, only with a more sorrowful touch.” “Le letture di Biblioragazzi”

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BOMPIANI Pages: 240 RIGHTS LIST Publication: March 2016 Price: e 13,00 80 CHILDREN & YA John Steinbeck, Shout Letter to Thom about Love LETTERA A THOM SULL’AMORE

A letter from father to son about love: be in love. His father, then living in New how to tell it from an infatuation, how York with his second wife, Elaine, offered to face such a new and overwhelming his views on the matter by writing him a emotion, how not to rush. touching and tender letter, here enriched by Shout’s wonderful illustrations. John Steinbeck enjoyed the duties of fatherhood and dispensed advice to his two sons when it was requested and sometimes when it was not. When in 1958 Steinbeck’s son Thom was fourteen and attending boarding school in Connecticut he met a young girl named Susan with whom he thought he might

JOHN STEINBECK ALESSANDRO GOTTARDOaka SHOUT (1902-1968) is one of the greatest American writers of the 20th was born in Pordenone but lives and works in Milan. He worked century, winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize for Literature. His whole for the “New York Times”, “the Wall Street Journal”, “TIME”, work is published in Italy by Bompiani. Penguin Books, Volkswagen, Barclays, ENI, Nokia and received many important international prizes.

BOMPIANI Pages: 32 RIGHTS LIST Publication: November 2018 Price: e 15,00 81 CHILDREN & YA Nadia Terranova Homer was here. Myths and Legends from the Strait OMERO È STATO QUI. MITI E LEGGENDE DELLO STRETTO

From Peix Nicolau to Scylla and go back to them and retell them. This Charybdis, from Syrens and Mermaids anthology pays homage to the great ones to Morgana, ten stories from the of the past in order to offer the young Mediterranean tradition set in the readers the plethora of wonders the waters of the Messina Strait. Greek world and the rich tradition of Mediterranean sea can offer us. Nadia Terranova was born and grew up in Messina. The stories of her land inhabit her and as she dedicated herself to literature it would come natural to

NADIA TERRANOVA VANNA VINCI was born in Messina. Her first novel wasGli anni del was born in 1964 in Cagliari. She has been working in the contrario (Einaudi, 2015) but she also writes children’s comic and illustration world since 1990, becoming one of books, such as Bruno: il bambino che imparò a volare and Le the most beloved Italian comic authors. She was awarded nuvole per terra. Her novel Addio fantasmi was shortlisted the Yellow Kid Prize for the best comic author in 1999, the for the 2019 Strega Prize. Gran Guinigi Prize in 2005 and the Romics Prize for the best European work in 2001. She is best known for “La bambina filosofica”.

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BOMPIANI Pages: 64 Rightholder: RIGHTS LIST Publication: March 2019 MalaTesta Literary Agency Price: e 10,00 82 CHILDREN & YA Alessandra Valtieri The Silk Princesses and other stories from ancient faraway China. LE PRINCIPESSE DELLA SETA ALTRI RACCONTI CINESI

A collection of short stories to discover a clever emperors, storks and belligerent remote and fascinating world. Illustrated eels. Little things of everyday life and in black-and-white by Mauro Evangelista. great projects against the background of a vibrating civilization we can get to know The Great Wall, animal fables, rites and better through stories. special celebrations: ancient China is a fascinating place, rich in stories. This selection is aimed to lure young readers into a complex world: silkworms and

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ALESSANDRA VALTIERI translator and toy-seller, is author of Il coniglio di velluto (Giunti).

MAURO EVANGELISTA was born in Macerata, where he lives. He worked as a graphic designer before becoming a full-time illustrator and teacher. His works have been published both in Italy and abroad.

BOMPIANI Pages: 120 RIGHTS LIST Publication: March 2018 Price: e 14,00 83 CHILDREN & YA Silvia Vecchini Before Nightfall PRIMA CHE SIA NOTTE

An unusual form (poetry and prose) to never stopped him from being funny, tell the story of a kid in trouble, who has happy, and very strong. But when his to face another challenge: an operation sight seems to be failing it is too much that might or might not save his sight. for everybody, in the family. How do you stand up to such a risk? Simple: Carlo can’t hear, Carlo can see only you just do it, that’s all. You try and from one eye, and now that eye is in smile, and you realize you actually can. danger. The narrating voice of this A strong family bond, an inexhaustible story, written in poetry and prose, is his vital energy, irony and affection are the sister’s, a combative adolescent who source of a fine, unforgettable narrative has always been drawing energy from voice. her complicity with Carlo. His issues

SILVIA VECCHINI was born in 1975 in Perugia. She loves poetry and has written several books for children and young adults. She regularly holds workshops and events based on her works.

A moving story about resilience and courage.

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