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Rights list 2015 Foreign Rights Manager Emanuela Canali MONDADORI lIbRI via Mondadori,1 20090 Segrate-Milano [email protected] tel. +39.02.7542.3167 fax +39.02.7542.3047 Foreign Rights Assistant Elena Biagi MONDADORI lIbRI via Mondadori,1 20090 Segrate-Milano [email protected] tel. +39.02.7542.3017 fax +39.02.7542.3047 www.librimondadori.it COP_frankoforte_2015_ok.indd 1 22/09/15 11:57 Abate Carmine La felicità dell’attesa 9 Barbero Alessandro Le Ateniesi 8 Bianchi Marco La mia cucina italiana 50 Biglino Mauro La Bibbia non parla di Dio 42 Bignardi Daria Santa degli impossibili 7 Bisotti Massimo Foto/grammi dell’anima 33 Bollani Stefano Parliamo di musicisti 52 Brizzi Enrico Il matrimonio di mio fratello 10 Carabba Enzo Fileno La zia subacquea 11 Cavallo Roberta - Panarese Antonio Smettila di fare i capricci 41 Cesaretti Paolo Le quattro mogli dell’imperatore 44 Costa Antonio Maria Scaccomatto all’Occidente 24 Cotto Massimo Su me stesso non ho mai scritto niente 53 Crupi Stefano A ogni santo la sua candela 13 Cugia Diego Nessuno può sfrattarci dalle stelle 22 D’Aloja Francesca Anima viva 14 De Crescenzo Luciano Te voglio bene assaje 51 Delle Foglie Daniela La felicità delle suore 21 Dionisi Stefano La barca dei folli 29 Distefano Antonio Dikele Fuori piove. Dentro pure. Passo a prenderti? 32 Enoch Luca Il risveglio del Potente 34 Evangelisti Valerio Nella notte ci guidano le stelle 26 Feniello Amedeo Napoli 1343: alle radici del male 45 Ferrario Rachele Margherita Sarfatti 46 Genovesi Fabio Chi manda le onde 2 Giacobino Margherita Ritratto di famiglia con bambina grassa 3 Giorello Giulio Il fantasma e il desiderio 49 Progetto grafico: Gianni Camusso Impaginazione: Elisabetta Bertani 2E3_frankoforte_2015_ok_2.indd 1 22/09/15 16:10 Gratteri Nicola- Nicaso Antonio Oro bianco 38 Grossi Pietro L’uomo nell’armadio 6 Manfredi Emilio Ernesto La vita è brutale e poi muori 18 Moresco Antonio Gli increati 4 Nirenstein Fiamma Il Califfo e l’Ayatollah 47 Oggero Margherita La ragazza di fronte 15 Ozpetek Ferzan Sei la mia vita 28 Pasini Giuliano Il fiume ti porta via 19 Pennacchi Antonio Canale Mussolini parte seconda 12 Piattelli Palmarini Massimo Il nono giorno della creazione 39 Pitzorno Bianca La vita sessuale dei nostri antenati 5 Rampini Federico L’età del caos 54 Ravasi Gianfranco Le pietre di inciampo del Vangelo 43 Re Roberto Cambiare senza paura 40 Recchioni Roberto YA. La battaglia di Campocarne 36 Riva Alberto Il Samba di Scarlatti 17 RossiLuca Catturandi 25 Sacchi Arrigo Calcio totale 30 Selvetella Yari La banda Tevere 16 Tesio Silvia Ama ciò che sei 20 Troisi Licia Dove va a finire il cielo 37 Valsecchi Pietro Prima famiglia 23 Vattani Mario Doromizu - Acque torbide 27 Vespa Bruno Donne al potere 55 Xharryslaugh Gray 35 Zecchi Stefano Il lusso 48 Zöggeler Armin Ghiaccio acciaio anima 31 INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 1 22/09/15 16:10 LITERARY FICTION 390 pages February 2015 Fabio Genovesi Chi manda le onde Who Sends Waves An exuberant contemporary novel told with the tenderness of a Fellini film On the shore of the sea Luna, an These are some of the true-to- FABIO GENOVESI (born in 1974 in albino girl, collects a thousand life characters that animate this Forte dei Marmi) is one of the strange things that wash ashore novel full of hilarious, poignant, most original voices in Italian while her brother, the king of bittersweet stories across every contemporary fiction. His first the surf, rides the waves. He page. novel Esche vive (2011) was is so different from her. He is Fabio Genovesi draws a concise translated in ten languages. tanned by the sun of Versilia and ironical portrait of an and adored by all the girls. And authentic, sincere Italy, an Italy Rights sold in Germany/Insel, yet, he only has room in his free of cliché and stereotypical France/Lattes, Netherlands/ heart for Luna and his mother, postcard images, an Italy with Signatuur, Brasil/Valentina, Serena, a beautiful woman who deeply human characters, whose UK + US/Europa Editions. raised them alone. Sandro, who destinies are, at the same title, has come of age but still lives universal. with his parents and gets by selling necklaces to tourists, is desperately trying to win her over. Then Zot, a mysterious boy who comes from Chernobyl and lives with Ferruccio, the irascible retired lifeguard. 2 3 INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 2 22/09/15 16:10 LITERARY FICTION 256 pages March 2015 Margherita Giacobino Ritratto di famiglia con bambina grassa Portrait of a Family with a Fat Daughter A powerful family saga A masterfully written novel the Second World War, through MARGHERITA GIACOBINO (born that brings to life the destiny the economic boom to today. in Turin in 1952) is a writer, of a humble family lead by a And then: the stories the women translator and film director. She strong cast of women: Maria, shared with the children while translated - among many things - the beloved mother who is they huddled in the stables for Wuthering Heights and Madame as firm as the earth beneath warmth: the stories of the Magne, Bovary. Her latest novel is L’uovo your feet; Michin, the brilliant the aunts who in the twenties fuori dal cavagno (Elliot, 2010). spinster aunt never known but a chose factory work in order to soulmate nonetheless; Polonia, gain freedom from their families, Rights sold in France/Stock, the midwife, sweet and bon and the incredible story of a girl Germany/Antje Kunstmann and vivant. And above all the rest, who crossed the ocean alone, all UK + US/Dedalus. there is the magna Ninin, the the way from California back to aunt who raised Margherita. the small native town in Italy. In retracing her family’s journey, the author describes over a century of Italian history: from the countryside of Piedmont at the end of the nineteenth century, to Germany where her father was taken prisoner during 2 3 INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 3 22/09/15 16:10 LITERARY FICTION 1032 pages March 2015 Antonio Moresco Gli increati The Uncreated The third volume in Moresco’s monumental trilogy A unique novel that will disturb, narrative unleashed for twelve ANTONIO MORESCO (Mantua, 1947) delight, awe and thrill readers, hundred pages. is an author of freakish talent. especially those who still It is presented as the journey of It took him years to complete expect something from life and the narrator, in first person, in the monumental and heretical, literature. the Afterworld. thousand page long, Canti del Antonio Moresco is now In reality, it is a novel that leads caos (2009), that established considered to be one of Italy’s us to a dimension where we have him as the most solitary and leading writers. never been, and the author calls uncompromising Italian writer. The peak of his art, and the it Gli increati. Moresco’s recent shorter works landing point of his entire include Gli incendiati (2010), literary trajectory, Gli increati La lucina (2013) (rights sold is an autonomous novel but to Verdier/France, Archipelago is also the conclusion to his Books/USA, Anagrama/ Spain, earlier works, Gli esordi and Dybbuk/Czech Rep) and Fiaba Canti del caos, the two pillars of d’amore (2015). his literary architecture. Fields of poetry, philosophical and scientific theories, appearances of historical figures agitate the waters of this vast and flowing 4 5 INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 4 22/09/15 16:10 LITERARY FICTION 458 pages June 2015 Bianca Pitzorno La vita sessuale dei nostri antenati Our Ancestors’ Sex Lives “There’s no such thing as a normal family” June 1979. While attending a cratic grandmother, Ada Ferrell, BIANCA PITZORNO with more than conference at Cambridge, the and her eccentric gynecologist two million copies sold, is the young Ada Bertrand, a professor uncle, Tancredi. author of Italy’s most cherished of Greek literature, makes three Thanks to a series of strange co- children’s books. She wrote this acquaintances that will change incidences, Ada discovers an- novel for her readers who have her life forever: an anthropolo- cient maps, paintings, jewelry, now grown and wonder, “Do her gist who claims he can speak with and diaries that contradict the characters ever fall in love?” the dead, his young assistant - a official and respectable family medium who relies on a talisman, history she was so proudly passed and a handsome young stranger down by her grandmother. who, in a fleeting encounter, Nothing is as had been told, and gives her her first real orgasm, believed. revealing the indissoluble union between Eros and Thanatos. Upon her return to Italy, with a newfound energy and inspira- tion, Ada begins to research her family history from her parents, who raised her and her orphaned cousin, Lauretta, to her aristo- 4 5 INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 5 22/09/15 16:10 LITERARY FICTION 216 pages May 2015 Pietro Grossi L’uomo nell’armadio The Man in the Closet Three surreal stories, full of irony and magic A stool in the great hall of an man who is willing to hide away PIETRO GROSSI (Florence, 1978) airport starts spinning on its pin neatly in the closet among the has lived in New York, Rome and and does not stop, as if animated coats and underwear when she Milan, working in the cinema, by perpetual impulse: arousing needs to be alone. as a translator and a copywriter. first distracted glances by some Three unusual and original In 2006 he made his début with travelers, then growing curiosity, stories. A work masterfully Pugni, a collection of short stories and finally an alarming form of written, able to transport us to (winner of the “Independent collective worship ..