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MMOONNDDAADDOORRII RIGHTS LIST January – June 2017 Mondadori Foreign Rights [email protected] UPMARKET COMMERCIAL FICTION UPMARKET COMMERCIAL FICTION 246 PAGES, JANUARY 2017 183 PAGES, JANUARY 2017 Don’t be afraid of The stubborn search of a girl your weakness brimming with love for life LUCA BIANCHINI NICOLA LECCA NESSUNO COME NOI I COLORI DOPO IL BIANCO Nobody Like Us The Colors After White Turin, 1987. Vincenzo, Vince for his friends, is a seventeen-year- Silke is tired of Innsbruck. A cold and perfect city where destiny old in love with his classmate Caterina, known as Cate, is in almost constant state of hibernation, hostage of habit and constantly falling in love with everyone but him. Unaware of tamed by discipline. She decides to move to Marseille to live her making him suffer, she always goes to him for advice about her life fully. From the moment she arrives, Marseille will envelop her love life while Spagna, goth girl with black hair and a sharp in its hive of complicated existences, healing her from her tongue, watches perplexed. Halfway through the school year, the solitude and embracing her in its multitude, unsettling, balance between the happy trio is disrupted by the arrival of frightening, amusing, and moving. In Innsbruck, she felt like time Romeo Fioravanti, handsome, spoiled, and a little cocky, about was suspended in a sterile illusion and days followed one to turn eighteen: he thinks he knows everything just because he another with the unnatural grace of synchronized swimming. But comes from a wealth family. Watching over them is Betty in Marseille, unpredictable currents, challenging, giving in return Bottone, their passionate Italian teacher who reprimands them in vivacious and full of warmth encounters like Murielle, her chatty French and explains Dante through modern dance. She will also neighbor armed with cakes and African delicacies; or the old cat embark on a journey that no one really prepares you for: lady of Rue de la Palud and a young thief, athlete, and fire-eater unexpected love, the kind that makes your heart skip a beat called Didier. She will come to realize that, while destiny can take even when ―it shouldn‘t.‖ so much away from you, it is also prone to giving back when you A journey of self-discovery at a time when there weren‘t least expect it. computers or smartphones to understand how important it is not to fear your weaknesses. NICOLA LECCA (Cagliari, 1976) is a nomadic writer who has lived LUCA BIANCHINI (Turin, 1970) is the author of a long list of in Vienna, Barcelona, Venice, London, Innsbruck, Reykjavík, and bestsellers (all published by Mondadori), Io che amo solo te and Visby. His first novel Concerti Senza Orchestra (ed. Marsilio, its sequel La cena di Natale (both published in 2013), were 1999) was among the finalists for the Strega Prize. His work adapted for the big screen, becoming successful movies. He is a Hotel Borg (2006), Il Corpo Odiato (2009) and La piramide del regular contributor to ―la Repubblica‖ and runs the blog ―Pop caffè (2013) have been published in fifteen European countries Up‖ for ―Vanity Fair.‖ and in Brazil. LITERARY FICTION LITERARY FICTION 282 PAGES, FEBRUARY 2017 240 PAGES, FEBRUARY 2017 A hilarious novel reminiscent of Dino “The irony is that I was scared of living for Risi and Mario Monicelli’s films twenty years, and now I’m afraid of dying” FRANCESCO MAROCCO ROAN JOHNSON CRONACHE DELLA DISCORDIA DOVESSI RITROVARMI IN UNA SELVA OSCURA Chronicles of Discord Should I find myself within a dark forest Forgotten by history and stranded in the wrinkles of an The protagonist has everything: a loving girlfriend, a creative job, inaccessible Southern Italy, the inhabitants of Paludazzo and and an interesting past. But something happens on his thirty- Montesole have always hated each other. Their mutual seventh birthday, ―midway upon the journey of our life.‖ While resentment would have eternally festered if the powers in Rome making love to his girlfriend, he is struck by the first of his hadn‘t decided to shake things up. ―terribles‖: a searing pain in his nape. Over the next few days, the The two towns had been merged together, turning into the new pain comes back any time he tries to have sex or masturbate, municipality of Fiumesecco, so for the first time ever, they have goes to several doctors with his girlfriend, his mother, and the to vote for only mayor. On the eve of the election, a primordial fear of living the biggest irony in history: the capacity of being sense of fear permeated both towns, each fearing the rival aroused but the inability to enjoy it even again. candidate would be elected. He decides to undergo an MRI, but he has his first panic attack The Prime Minister, ambitious and opportunist, is concerned by during the procedure. Boarding a flight a few days later, he is the upcoming vote. He had hoped that his historic electoral gripped by an irrational fear just before takeoff and is escorted reform would result in clear winners and losers, thus making the off the airplane. country finally manageable. But a speck of dust can jam a What is happening to him? Maybe he should look for the answer seemingly foolproof system and that fleck is Fiumesecco and the in the psychedelic experiences and desperate love that marked new municipality catches the media‘s attention. In a place where his adolescence… even a priest says ―no one should unite what God divided‖ only a stubborn and relentless love will bring fresh air. ROAN JOHNSON was born in London and grew up in Pisa with FRANCESCO MAROCCO (born in Bari in 1976) has a PH degree his Italian mother and British father. He went to film school in in Architecture and taught university courses in landscape Rome, graduating from the Centro Sperimentale di design in Bari, Matera and Valencia. He has been living and Cinematografia. He published the novel Prove di felicità a Roma working in New York as an architect since 2014. In 2012 he made Est (2010, ed. Einaudi Stile Libero), which received a Berto Award, his début with Mai innamorarsi ad agosto with Fandango. and has also directed three movies. THRILLER COMMERCIAL FICTION 180 PAGES, MARCH 2017 234 PAGES, JANUARY 2017 180 P , M 2017 A young woman mortally wounded by men in a A hypnotic neMwa nnocvae lla o cna plotniognin g for a gripping thriller with an unexpected ending Manca la caption love never really experienced Trovare qualcosa path of heartbreak MARINA DI GUARDO MANUELA KALÌ COME È GIUSTO CHE SIA DODICI MINUTI DI PIOGGIA As It Should Be Twelve Minutes of Rain Dalia is barely twenty, but her trust in the world is already ―My heart is full of memories of you that I never lived.‖ An severely compromised. Her father abandoned her before she impossible, heartrending love and a woman searching for was even born. Her mother‘s next boyfriend turned out to be herself. Alice is barely over thirty. She works in a graphic design violent. Growing up, she developed a tight bond with her company and lives with her cat Blanca. She doesn‘t trust men: mother as they carried on with their withdrawn lives, unable to her father abandoned her when she was just a girl. breach through the solitude. Dalia is shy, troubled by the One day, passing by the scene of a car accident in which a memory of the black sun she used to draw as a child and by a young man lost his life, she catches a glimpse of his hand from recurring nightmare: the inside of a car covered in blood. under the sheet that covers his body. She can‘t get the image She harbours an unspeakable desire, a longing for revenge and out of her head until she has an accident in that very same spot, redemption. When this deep-seated hunger is suddenly ending up in a coma. She drifts into a parallel dimension, unleashed, she turns into Nemesi, goddess of revenge, suspended in a rarefied world in which she meets Andrea, the determined to punish every man who thinks he controls the life man who died in the accident. She feels closer to him than and death of his women. While the monsters in her mind start anyone she ever met before. Waking up from the coma, quenching their thirst for blood, Dalia starts going out with however, she feels the excruciating longing for a love she never Alessandro, a nice guy who had been courting her eagerly and really experienced. But when a real-life man declares his love for politely. But violence can take on the most unexpected guises… her, Alice finds herself at a fork in the road: can she overcome her fear and try to live a real love? MARINA DI GUARDO, is known online for her blog ―The Travel MANUELA KALÌ (Rome, 1980) is a portrait photographer who Passion.‖ She published three novels, the most recent of which works in the fashion industry. This is her first novel. was Bambole gemelle (2015), published by Feltrinelli‘s e-book collection Zoom Filtr. LITERARY FICTION UPMARKET COMMERCIAL FICTION 276 PAGES, APRIL 2017 204 PAGES, APRIL 2017 The dolce vita meet the Jewish A unique and extraordinary novel written orthodoxy in Rome from the disease’s perspective ELISABETTA FIORITO FIAMMA SATTA CARCIOFI ALLA GIUDÌA IO E LEI. Roman Artichokes CONFESSIONI DELLA SCLEROSI MULTIPLA Me and Her. Confessions by Multiple Sclerosis Rosamaria is a playwright; she always pursued her passions with Unscrupulous, ironic, diabolical: Multiple Sclerosis is a character determination, turned down a job in the family business, and that steals the scene.