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.

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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

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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

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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-

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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 ... new universes. Foreign Fiction Prize” and 2010 The solitary and eccentric young Campiello Europa Prize). In 2011 scion of a wealthy Florentine he published the novel Incanto, family who is passionate about English rights sold to The the use of the scalpel. He uses it Pushkin Press. to remove the surface of things - of all things - and to draw artwork of shocking intensity. That is, until, the use of this unusual artistic tool gets out of hand. A modern girl, single and eager to find a sweet but unobstructive boyfriend, falls in love with a

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 6 22/09/15 16:10 LITERARY FICTION 110 pages May 2015

Daria Bignardi Santa degli impossibili The Saint of Impossible Causes “If you’ve seen the light even just once, you’ll remember it forever.”

Mila is about to turn forty. Now a where that light had been, there DARIA BIGNARDI (born in Ferrara), wife and mother, her life is on the is instead a shameful shadow, is a journalist and screenwriter tracks with no other stops in sight. calling her into the dark. and the star of a popular TV She lives in Milan, a city where Mila makes a knowing and talk-show. In 2009 her debut stress is the main contagion. It shocking gesture, ending within novel Non vi lascerò orfani was is impossible to walk by the San the white walls of a hospital. It is a poignant literary case with Vittore prison - where Mila is a there, that she will meet a woman 100,000 copies sold. She is also volunteer - without feeling deep who goes straight to the heart the author of L’acustica perfetta sadness at that cage. Even more of things and helps her find the and L’amore che ti meriti, rights impossible is finding the words reasons for walking in this world. sold in Germany/Insel, Brasil/ to communicate when life is lived Bertrand, Turkey/Kirmizi Kedi, between work, children, and the Albania/Dudaj, Slovenia/MLK, silences that have accumulated Serbia/Evro Giunti, Poland/ over the years. Edra Urban. Mila wishes she could pray to Saint Rita, Saint Patron of Impossible Causes, with the same confidence and abandon that her grandmother had shown her when she was little. But

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 7 22/09/15 16:10 HISTORICAL NOVEL 212 pages September 2015

Alessandro Barbero Le Ateniesi The Athenian Girls

A shocking fresco of life in Greece in 411 B.C.

With his unique ability to bring young Cimone, son of Eubulus, ALESSANDRO BARBERO (Turin, history to life, Alessandro Barbero rich, arrogant and cavalier, is the 1959) teaches medieval history takes on an impressive task: he man of their dreams. at the University of Turin. In sets, in classical Athens, a drama When all the men gather in the 1996 he won the Premio Strega that is eerily modern and at the city for the first performance of with Bella vita e guerre altrui di Mr. same time brings to the stage an a play by Aristophanes, the girls Pyle, gentiluomo, a literary case ancient comedy. break all the rules of a patriarchal translated worldwide. Athens, 411 B.C.: two old veterans, society and go to Cimone’s house. The rights to his last novel Gli Thrasyllus and Polemon, survived At the theater, Lysistrata decreed occhi di Venezia (2011) were sold the inglorious battle of Mantinea, the first strike of women against in UK + US/Europa Editions, where the Athenians were defeated men in order to invoke the end of France/ Tallandier and by the Spartans. They are making all wars, and the night in Eubulus’ Slovenia/Mladinska Knjiga. their living by working the land, villa takes a dramatic turn ... and have yet to fi nd husbands for their daughters, Glicera and Charis. The two old men believe politics are all that matter, but the two girls think their fathers are living in a dream world: for them, the

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 8 22/09/15 16:10 LITERARY FICTION 358 pages October 2015

Carmine Abate La felicità dell’attesa The Happiness of Waiting A family saga spanning four generations across a century and three continents

A choral narrative with the pace and Australia, delving into CARMINE ABATE was born in 1954 of a thriller, revolving around our collective memory across in Carfizzi, an Italian-Albanian vengeance for an untimely death. the Twentieth century with a community in Calabria, South- It is in the States, in the year fabulous cast of characters: from Italy. He has published a glorious 1903, that Andy Varipapa, a guy the founder, Carmine Leto, who series of prize-winning novels, from a small Italian village, returns to Calabria with his among them La collina del vento becomes the world champion of American wife and dies under (100.000 copies sold and 2012 bowling and the mentor to Jon mysterious circumstances, to Campiello Prize). Leto who, from the same village, his son Jon, who follows in his will depart three times: first footsteps, and his grandson His books have been translated for revenge, then for love, and Carmine, the story’s narrator. in France, USA, Germany, The finally for work. And the women, such marvel of Netherlands, Greece, Portugal, In Los Angeles, thanks to Andy, strenght and tenacity: Shirley, and Albania. Jon meets a young woman with the “American wife”; the restless powerful magnetism, like a siren: Lina (who will never come back a woman, at the time called to Italy) and her daughter Lucy, Norma Jeane, soon to be known who unexpectedly returns to her across the globe by another name. country of origin to care for her An extraordinary epic that dying grandfather. takes place in Italy, the US

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 9 22/09/15 16:10 LITERARY FICTION 540 pages October 2015

Enrico Brizzi Il matrimonio di mio fratello My Brother’s Marriage A family saga full of irony and postcards from the past

Teo is 38 years old, has a secure advent of social networks and the ENRICO BRIZZI (Bologna, 1974) job, and a different girl every organic foods movement... debuted sensationally when he weekend to keep his mind off the A funny and touching story of was only twenty years old with the woman he loves. He is fine for an Italy that no longer exists, highly successful Jack Frusciante the moment, unlike his brother, and the hilarious exploits of è uscito dal gruppo, the manifesto Max, who has always been radical two brothers: which of them is of a young generation which was in everything he does: from deluded? Who chose the best made into a film and the rights of rebelling against his parents, path? which were sold in twenty-four to his passion for mountain countries. climbing, from building a family as one does in their 30s, to divorcing ruinously in his 40s... Max suddenly disappears with his children, and so Teo goes to the Dolomites to find him. Driving along the long stretch of highway, he tells the story of their lives from the late 70s to the present: their childhood in Rimini, socialism and its collapse, the

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 10 22/09/15 16:10 LITERARY FICTION 382 pages September 2015

Enzo Fileno Carabba La zia subacquea The Subaqueous Aunt and Other Family Abysses A brilliant and irresistible personal Amarcord

This story starts in a time and woman devoted to swimming; and ENZO FILENO CARABBA was born a place of legend: summer in Enzo’s parents, absorbed in their in Florence in 1966. He is the Abruzzo, where our protagonist work, often absent, but regarded author of novels, noir and fantasy would spend his holidays with with tender and affectionate stories. In 2011 he published his paternal grandparents. The irony, an irony particularly with Mondadori Con un poco sea is the primordial element assigned to his father, a film critic di zucchero, very successfully in which occur the first exciting who submitted his child, then translated in Germany by btb. discoveries of young Enzo’s his grandchildren, to watching life: his first contacts with the movies unsuitable for their age, creatures that inhabit the waters loves poker and bets on horses as and seabed. though it were his second job… His home is populated by a Carabba in this very personal family of educated and eccentric Recherche du temps perdu has the characters. In this place, love is extraordinary ability to use a arguing fiercely over nothing. consistently ironic tone that is There is Enzo’s Grandfather, a sometimes bewildered, at times judge who, according to his wife, romantic, and reminiscent of is a “big whore”; Great-uncle certain Fellini films. Manin also a magistrate; Aunt Anna, a whimsical, taciturn

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 11 22/09/15 16:10 LITERARY FICTION 350 pages January 2016

Antonio Pennacchi Canale Mussolini parte seconda Mussolini Canal part two The eagerly awaited sequel to a literary masterpiece

Five years after the publication of troops, up to the economic boom ANTONIO PENNACCHI (Latina, 1950), the fi rst volume Antonio Pennacchi in the 1960s. an uncompromising powerful delivers the second volume of The main character is now Diomede storyteller, was a factory worker the story of the Peruzzi’s family: Peruzzi, son of Modigliana and an until the age of fifty. In 2010 and it’s again a rollicking feast unknown father. Unforgettable is he published the first volume of adventures and misventures the opening scene, where Diomede of Canale Mussolini a bestseller following the same family across walks out of the bank, wheeling with 500.000 copies, crowned a cockeyed version of modern away a cart full of banknotes after with Italy’s most prestigious history, which begs to be read. the Americans bombed the Banca literary prize, Premio Strega. After laughing with and at its d’Italia. Rights were sold in Germany/ characters, suffering with them Walking alongside such masters Hanser, France/Liana Levi, and becoming invested in the as Steinbeck and García Márquez, Netherlands/De bezige Bij, UK/ fascinating story of a peasant this novel stands as a masterpiece Dedalus, Denmark/Gyldendal, exodus from northern Italy to of storytelling. Pennacchi is Croatia/Algoritam, Albania/ the Pontine Marshes, as part of a very talented in constructing a Dituria, Macedonia/Ili-Ili. fascist bid to reclaim agricultural parallel universe where the reader land, the new novel starts from develops a true relationship with the final years of WWII when the characters. You won’t be able the US Army soldiers landed in to help missing the Peruzzi family the area and defeated German when it is time to separate.

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 12 22/09/15 16:10 UPMARKET COMMERCIAL FICTION 250 pages January 2016

Stefano Crupi A ogni santo la sua candela Every Saint his Candle The rise and fall of “candid” Ernesto driven by a ruthless, dark mother

Finding a job in Italy during the had a weakness for powerful and STEFANO CRUPI (born in Caserta in economic recession is not that charismatic men, which brought 1977) is a journalist since 2010 difficult, you just have to know her to cross paths with Alfonso and contributes to several local how it works. Ernesto, who grew Malatesta, a man who years newspapers. In 2014 Mondadori up in the “Quartieri Spagnoli” later would become a powerful published his debut novel, and lost his father, has recently camorra boss. Ernesto becomes Cazzimma, soon to be translated managed to receive his degree the means by which Maristella in Brasil by Bertrand. in economics. He knows exactly can leap forward to bring her how the game is played. The first grand plan to fruition. Ernesto move? Get behind the right saint. also inherited from her a sense His unrestrained search for of determination and a certain success is rooted in the figure lack of scruples: everyone can be of his strong, ambitious and used, and anyone will work, even ruthless mother Maristella, Maristella herself. a woman who was raised in To become someone, show no adversity and widowed after weakness. only three years of marriage. For years she has flanned and plotted for their own radical social redemption. In her youth, she

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 13 22/09/15 16:10 UPMARKET COMMERCIAL FICTION 294 pages April 2015

Francesca D’Aloja Anima viva A Living Soul “Never look your enemy in the eye, for you may stop hating him”

Twenty-year-old Angelika Berger 1940s in a little town not far from FRANCESCA D’ALOJA made her is strolling along the streets of Lublin, where the events that directing debut in 1997 with Paris with her father, Hans, when forever tarnished the history of the documentary film “Piccoli a boy bored and locked in his her family began. ergastoli”, shot inside the room to study, grabs a bow and She finds that her grandfather, Rebibbia prison. Her first book shoots an arrow out his window, was the famously efficient was Il sogno cattivo (Mondadori, stopping its whistling trajectory commander of the Majdanek 2006) translated into French by in Hans’ chest, killing him concentration camp. A terrible Gallimard. instantly. weight of guilt hangs over Angelika is now alone. Angelika’s shoulders, but from She never met her mother as the past comes a sign: a wooden she grew up with her father, a sled, carved by a talented shy Professor of Philosophy. In Jewish prisoner for the camp emptying their apartment, she commander’s children. The man comes across a small safe that who carved it is still alive and is holds a diary and a faded photo. key to the redemption she seeks It is just the beginning of a series for her family’s memory… of revelations that will take Angelika from Paris to London, to Nancy, and back in time to the

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 14 22/09/15 16:10 UPMARKET COMMERCIAL FICTION 276 pages May 2015

Margherita Oggero La ragazza di fronte The Girl in Front If you secretly look into a window, you may discover a secret, a crime, a love

When he was a boy, newly arrived and police investigation, the MARGHERITA OGGERO lives in Turin in Turin from the south, he had story transforms into a romance and has taught in almost all kind been enchanted by the girl who with every turned page. of schools. In 2002 she published would sit and read on her balcony. A piece of tender romance with La collega tatuata, the first in a When she was a girl, tormented great originality. series of mysteries starring the by her wild twin brothers, she Another delicious Oggero’s novel school-teacher Camilla Baudino, would take refuge on her balcony that will keep you enthralled to which have become a highly to dream of the lives of others. the last pages. successful TV series. Life reshuffled the cards, and she is alone, with only one motto Among her foreign publishers: “be enough for yourself” and Piper and DVA/Germany, Albin one secret pleasure: spying from Michel/France, Ripol/Russia, behind the curtains into the dark Presença/Portugal. front window. Until something unexpected happens, or rather two things, that makes her heart beat faster ... A kind of remake of La finestra sul Cortile (The Back Window) complete with a thrilling murder

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 15 22/09/15 16:10 COZY CRIME 246 pages April 2015

Yari Selvetella La banda Tevere The Roman Job Big Deal on Madonna Street meets Romanzo Criminale

Mauro Urbani has been called and Mario “Bombay”, a part time YARI SELVETELLA (Rome, 1976), “Tevere” ever since the day, bartender who dreams of opening a journalist and novelist, is an laden with gold and rings, he a chiringuito on the beach in Ibiza. expert on Roman crime and threw himself into the river from The band is reunited, but they are has had great success with his the Ponte Sant’Angelo as a test of still missing a plan. volume Roma Criminale (Newton courage: he was young, nothing At this stage enter Rashid, a Compton, 2009). could happen. delinquent of obscure provenance Now over 50, he has just been with the look of an Arab prince. released from prison. One Will the group manage to pull evening his daughter Monya ahead, avoiding their arch enemy reveals she is pregnant, and she “the Octupus” and the corrupt and her boyfriend are still in inspector D’Amato, the man who college. It is high time Tevere sent Tevere to jail? acts the father and promises: “I’ll An exhuberant contemporary take care of you!” novel that harmonizes the grim He brings on his recruits: his atmosphere of a crime novel with two most trusted friends, Peppe ironic melancholy. Loria, known as “the Fakir”, six feet of muscle and violence, a small brain, and a heart of gold,

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 16 22/09/15 16:10 NOIR 354 pages May 2015

Alberto Riva Il Samba di Scarlatti Scarlatti’s Samba A noir and a love story set in hypnotic Rio de Janeiro

Franco Scarlatti, an ex-cop from and impunity. Moreover, his ALBERTO RIVA (born in Milano Italy, has lived in Rio for years inquiries bring him back to his in 1950) lives in Rio de Janeiro running a real-estate agency own circle of friends. where he corresponds for a on the Copacabana beach. He A noir, a comedy, a poignant number of Italian magazines. is a lover of good food and love story set in hypnotic Rio de He is the author of Sete (Thirst), good music. But his day-to-day Janeiro, a long way from what we German rights of which have existence is thrown into chaos see in postcards, like Pennac’s been sold to Goldmann. when the body of a man dressed Belleville. as Mandrake is discovered. And Riva’s unforgettable characters that body was of the famous will capture the hearts of readers; journalist, Gigi Fossati. The starting from Franco Scarlatti, police come to Scarlatti for help part hero, part crook, who in a parallel investigation and he behind cynicism, sharp jokes, soon discovers that things are and ambition, hides a quick not what they seem. brain and a very noble soul. There are mysteries surrounding the Italian expat community, a group that moves among the dazzling present and the shadows of the past with grace

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 17 22/09/15 16:10 COMMERCIAL FICTION 280 pages May 2015

Emilio Ernesto Manfredi La vita è brutale e poi muori Life Is Brutal, then You Die The ultimate novel on contemporary Africa

Valerio Montale has lived in involved with the ’ndrangheta. If EMILIO ERNESTO MANFREDI, an Africa for more than ten years. he wants to see the child again, expert on sub-Saharan Africa, He found drug dealing provided he must follow the instructions lives in Addis Ababa and better than freelance journalism. which will lead him from one contributes to “Vanity Fair”, Every two or three months he end of Africa to the land of “L’Espresso” and “la Repubblica”. flies to Guinea Bissau to pick their fathers, Calabria, in his He is a consultant for several up a load of cocaine, takes it to own personal journey to hell. government and non- his home in Ivory Coast to cut Manfredi’s mix of truth and governmental agencies. it, then sells it to diplomats and fiction tells the real story of a aid workers across the continent shocking Africa today and shows from Addis Ababa. He lives a life why the future of the West could without a country, nomadic, with really depend on the “dark no real ties, except for one: his continent”. six years’ old daughter Malaika. But the little girl is kidnapped and Valerio discovers that the kidnapping has to do with his childhood best friend, Gaetano Currò, a seemingly enlightened entrepreneur, who is actually

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 18 22/09/15 16:10 THRILLER 272 pages June 2015

Giuliano Pasini Il fi ume ti porta via The River Carries You Away Death has begun its harvest. But Commissioner Serra is back

Just a short article in the its catholic marshal, communist GIULIANO PASINI (born in 1974) newspaper and Roberto Serra policeman, and a “Bar trattoria” debuted in 2012 with the novel, understands what he must do. run by the beautiful and lonely Venti corpi nella neve, praised by The doctor who showed him Serenella and her rebellious Corriere della Sera as “the new how to tame the “dance”, the teenaged daughter, where he can star of the Italian thriller”. In 2013 lucid hallucinations that force put to good use his gastronomic he published with Mondadori the him to re-live the scenes of the and wine-tasting expertise as second Serra’s adventure, Io sono cases under investigation, Mario sommelier. lo straniero. Gardini, was murdered. And A compelling mystery awaits him although he is on suspension in the shadows of the patients from the police department, of the asylum housed in the Robert needs to dive into the case, monumental palace of Colorno. if only to distance himself from Until the closing, in 1979, the demise of his relationship director of the great and gloomy with Alice. “cà Mat” was just Mario Gardini. He goes back to Emilia, to Pontaccio, a place of few souls on the great river Po, a town that looks like it came out of the pages of a Guareschi novel with

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 19 22/09/15 16:10 UPMARKET COMMERCIAL FICTION 168 pages September 2015

Silvia Tesio Ama ciò che sei Love Who You Are A brave novel about identity and the many possibilities of love

Marta is sound asleep in her Paris close to love. SILVIA TESIO (Turin, 1970) has apartment when her phone rings. When Andrea dies just a few worked as an advertising It is the middle of the night and hours later, Marta discovers that copywriter and a screenwriter her mother’s voice on the line she and her daughter are named for TV and theater. In 2010, she tells her to come home to Turin his heirs. It is within the four published her novel, Piacere, io right away because Andrea is walls of the cozy home they have sono Gauss (Nice to Meet You, I’m dying. A few hours later, Marta is just inherited that they unearth Gauss), which was translated back in her hometown of Turin. the secrets that were hidden over in Spain by Random House She runs to the hospital and skids the long years between them. Mondadori. to a stop in front of the room They are simple, but incredible where her first love lies. Only secrets, that bring sense, peace, Andrea is now a woman. and new life. Marta always knew Andrea’s greatest wish was to not be a man. They grew up together, they commiserated over their difficult family lives, shared their wish for building a different future for themselves. Marta could not help but feel for him something very

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 20 22/09/15 16:10 COMMERCIAL FICTION 204 pages September 2015

Daniela Delle Foglie La felicità delle suore The Happiness of the Nuns A breezy blend of romantic comedy and light irony

Maddalena is 26 years old, hates Aranci ... right where her parents DANIELA DELLE FOGLIE (Bari, nuns, and has a passion that decided to be happy together for 1983) worked as a story editor people would consider unusual a lifetime. and writer for a major film studio for a girl: porn. And that day, at that hour, in and wrote several episodes of TV Her father is the most loved that garden, Maddalena meets series. Apart from television, psychotherapist in Italy, a Simone, a serious Catholic who her two passions are porn and Catholic tv personality. Her turns her world upside down. Mormons. mother is a retired teacher of Maddalena proposes that she and religious studies. Simone get to know the worst Maddalena thinks her life sucks about each other, and after doing and is forever in search of the so, neither one runs away. missing link that will make Maddalena decides to try to be her happy. One evening, after happy with Simone and to make listening to yet another sermon peace with her father and with by her father on TV, talking about the Church, as had her idol, where and how he had asked her Belladonna: a porn actress who mother to marry him, she makes grew up in a Mormon family and a bet: if God exists, he will lead later became the queen of porn her to the missing link the next stars. day, at 11 a.m., in Giardino degli

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 21 22/09/15 16:10 UPMARKET COMMERCIAL FICTION 156 pages September 2015

Diego Cugia Nessuno può sfrattarci dalle stelle No One Can Evict Us From the Stars An enchanted fairy tale on wonderful power of imagination

The night Mandela died, Massimo years, and can see his past and DIEGO CUGIA (Rome, 1953), a Pietro Cruz was one of the one future? radio scriptwriter, is the author hundred and twenty million The child is only the first of of “Alcatraz”, one of Italy’s most impoverished Europeans. He several unpredictable visits popular radio programs, and of was once a star of a television Massimo Pietro receives that the bestsellers Jack Folla: Alcatraz variety show, but he has since night ... (2000), Jack, the Man of the People lost everything. He now lives Suspended between A Christmas (2002), The Flower Seller (2002) in a lonely country house, with Carol and the magic of The Little and Jack Folla: Letters from Silence only the company of two German Prince, Cugia has written a (2004). shepards and a sheep. On the eve wonderful book that reminds us of his eviction, as he whiles away of one of life’s most important his time mesmerized by a website lessons: we may lose all our showing the real-time account of material possessions, but we can births and deaths in the world, remain rich in our hearts so long he hears a noise downstairs. as the star of our imaginations He heads downstairs and finds a shines. child. At first he thought it was a thief. But who is this child, really, who shares his same name, possesses a wisdom beyond his

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 22 22/09/15 16:10 FAMILY SAGA 404 pages November 2015

Pietro Valsecchi Prima famiglia First Family The outstanding saga of the Palermo’s family: their dreams, their misery, their fortune

Pasquale and Carmela crossed true American, integrate, and PIETRO VALSECCHI (Crema, 1953) the ocean from Sicily in search study to be respected. Sal is the an expert in film and theater, of fortune in the place where exact opposite, driven by pure partnered with Camilla Nesbit dreams can turn into reality, ambition: there is nothing he in 1992 to found the leading film to find that New York is a hard would not do to get rich and production company TaoDue city, as cold as its climate and powerful. Nina looks up to him, Film, that has created some of its inhabitants. Even the Italians so blond and elegant. And then the most important film and TV who emigrated before them are Tony, the youngest and the only series in Italy. not ready to welcome them, American-born, struck by the locked in a parallel society new extraordinary invention: headed by the “Black Hand”, the cinema. ruthless and violent criminal Years later, Tony will convince organization that manages the Mr. Warner, the largest producer life of Italian immigrants in New in Hollywood, that his family’s York. story should be a movie. But Pasquale has a hard head and works tirelessly to make his dream come true. His children have dreams of their own: Frank, the eldest, wants to become a

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 23 22/09/15 16:10 THRILLER 520 pages September 2015

Antonio Maria Costa Scaccomatto all’Occidente The Checkmate Pendulum A frightening and compelling thriller set in the world of politics and finance

Investigating arms trafficking professional sanctions and ANTONIO MARIA COSTA for almost and suspicious banking, TV dead threats to unveil an epic a decade was the “UN drug czar”, journalist Pierre G. Bosco exposes conspiracy in which crime, namely the UN Under-Secretary maneuverings that prompt him finance and politics collude. in charge of fighting drugs and to address big questions. The much-sought prize is not crime; he previously served for Is the common currency of just hegemony over Europe: it is forty years management positions euro a step towards greater global supremacy. in international bodies such as the EU integration or will it cause European Union, the European Europe’s disintegration? Will Bank for Reconstruction and Germany, the EU’s dominant Development and the OECD. country, save Europe or wreck it a third time in a century? Is the bankers’ impunity because finance is a war and major powers are at war right now? Can Europe and the US fight back Russia’s neo-imperialism and China’s global ascendancy? In the dramatic search for answers, Bosco overcomes

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 24 22/09/15 16:10 THRILLER 430 pages October 2015

Luca Rossi Catturandi In the Name of the Father Also the heroes hide a darkside

The novelization of a TV series The research into the crime LUCA ROSSI (Milan, 1955) is a soon to be aired by RAIUNO ring is long and laborious, with journalist and screenwriter. In presented as the new “La Piovra”, as many traps as tips from the 1992 he published with the worldwide successful TV outside. Her investigation will Mondadori his bestseller, I series on Mafia. take several turns towards a disarmati. Palma Toscano is a tenacious surprising ending. woman who leads the Told with a furios pace and with “Catturandi”, an elite police constant shifts in perspective, force based in Palermo charged a major twist at the end will with the apprehension of the disclose that nothing is as it first country’s most-wanted mafia appears. criminals. In addition to the failings in her personal life, she is tormented by the mysterious death of her father, whom she considers almost an hero, which she continues to investigate. Her real task, however, is tracking down the fugitive mafia boss Sciacca.

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 25 22/09/15 16:10 HISTORICAL FICTION 350 pages November 2015

Valerio Evangelisti Nella notte ci guidano le stelle The Stars Guide Us through the Night The third chapter in Evangelisti’s reconstruction of Italy’s history

The third chapter in the series Il Soviettina (“Tina”) Merighi joins VALERIO EVANGELISTI (born in 1952 sole dell’avvenire, the ambitious the Liberation War as part of the in Bologna), historian, started saga detailing the history of Italy, most unconventional partisan in 1992 the publication of the from 1875 to 1950, through the group. extremely successful series of personal stories of three families None of them made the history novels dedicated to the medieval of workers and share croppers books, but each made a difference Inquisitor Eymerich - fantastic from Romagna. and played a role in reforming and tolkienesque - translated by The first volume focused on the Italy. Rivages, Heyne, Grijalbo, Asa, agrarian crisis, while the second And each, by the end of it, Conrad, Allfa, Znak, Mlada volume centered on the colonial wondered if the new Italy is really Fronta. empire and World War 1. In this what they wanted. Vivere lavorando o morire final instalment Fascism is a new combattendo (2013) was the element dissolving family unity. first volume of the series Il sole Spartaco (“Tito”) Verardi joins dell’avvenire; the second one the Fascists, aiming to destroy Chi ha del ferro ha del pane was the achievements of the labor released in 2014. movement. Destino Minguzzi is absorbed, almost in spite of himself, by the world of illegal immigrants and anti-fascists.

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 26 22/09/15 16:10 NOIR 300 pages February 2016

Mario Vattani Doromizu - Acque torbide Muddy Waters The dark and frightening story of a young Italian man in Tokyo

Alex settled in Tokyo to attend and unthinkable places of the MARIO VATTANI (born in 1966) university. He knows very little Japanese capital and splits him grew up in Paris and London, of Italy, his native country: his into two different directions: has served as diplomat in mother died when he was a shinto and zen buddhism from Washington and Cairo and is child and he grew up in London. one side, and the desire to open currently working at the Italian Neither place has much hold on himself to this unknown new Embassy in Tokyo. him, he is however maniacally world from the other. fascinated by Japanese culture: Alex’s initiation to Japanese its cinema, women, sex, and the culture, its politeness and traditional tattoo, irezumi. formalism, and subculture, Suddenly and unexpectedly, he with its violence, toughness and comes to possess a large amount humiliation, will take readers of money that could literally deep into the muddy waters, the change his life. This happens as doro-mizu, of Japan. he lands his first job as assistant This book is indeed a noir but to a film director who works in also a great declaration of love for the field of hentai porn. Japan and its women. Thanks to this, he gains access to a dark world that mesmerizingly pulls him into the most vicious

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 27 22/09/15 16:10 MEMOIR 220 pages May 2015

Ferzan Ozpetek Sei la mia vita You Are My Life Love never stops

Two men drive away from Rome AIDS, and the kind of solidarity FERZAN OZPETEK (born in 1959 in early in the morning. Throughout that cements friendships. Istanbul) is a Turkish-Italian the journey, the man at the wheel, With an irresistible style, light film director and writer residing a famous screenwriter, tells the and touching at the same time, in Rome. story of his life to the person Ferzan Ozpetek, the director Among his immensely popular sitting beside him, the man he who understands emotion better films: His secret Life, Facing has loved for some years now. than anyone, takes us on a Windows, Saturn in Opposition He triggers a series of memories, journey back and forth in time, and Loose Cannons. In 2013 his starting from the building in suspended between tears and first novel Rosso Istanbul sold via Ostiense where everything laughter, drama and reality. 50,000 copies and was translated happens, a crossroads of by Can in Turkey. different solitudes and the scene of dazzling and overwhelming passions. He came to Rome from native Istanbul to make cinema. It was the 80s, there was an atmosphere of extreme freedom, a large gay community, long summers, transgression, the scourge of

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 28 22/09/15 16:10 MEMOIR 144 pages September 2015

Stefano Dionisi La barca dei folli The Boat of Fools A journey through the dark alleys of our mind

Stefano Dionisi, a prolific film into the inferno of the psychiatric STEFANO DIONISI (1966), over and television actor, was asylums. Moving is the way he thirty years appeared in more hospitalized following a psychotic describes with great lucidity and than sixty films for the big episode. He was sent to the empathy his and their resignation screen and television. In 1994, psychiatric ward of a famous of living in a “world apart”, he starred in Farinelli, which Italian clinic with a diagnosis unknown to normal people; the won the Golden Globe and was an of manic depression. Because repetitiveness and exasperating Oscar nominee for best foreign his symptoms were persistent, monotony of daily life, fantasies film. he was re-admitted to the clinic and nightmares, obsessions and and hospitalized again, the fears, fragility and aggression, and final diagnosis described his the need for human contact and condition as bipolar disorder in tenderness. pharmacological remission. A sincere, deeply human With great courage and unexpected and touching account of the writing skills, Dionisi masterfully difficulties of existence. describes and discloses his personal experience and the suff erences of the “boat of the fools”, the humanity who accompanied him in his journey

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 29 22/09/15 16:10 MEMOIR 284 pages March 2015

Arrigo Sacchi Calcio totale Total Soccer “Soccer is played primarily with the head and you win with that, your feet come after!”

The story of one of the most buying the club. ARRIGO SACCHI, born in 1946, is legendary coaches in the soccer Early results were far from one of the most popular Italian history told for the very first promising, but once Milan got soccer coaches and he is regarded time. into form, they displayed why as one of the greatest managers of “I never realized that to be a they are thought of as arguably the all times. jockey you had to be a horse greatest side in soccer history, The Spanish rights to this book first.” One of the most famous winning back-to-back European were sold to Roca Editorial. quotes in the history of soccer cups. The players at Sacchi’s came from a man under intense disposal were of fantastic quality, pressure from the Italian media. but Sacchi himself played a huge Having never played soccer as role in Milan’s success, showing a professional player, Arrigo new tactical innovations which Sacchi’s ability to manage a team have influenced managers even trying to reach the pinnacle of today. European soccer was in scrutiny. Sacchi’s time in the spotlight Having beaten AC Milan twice was short, but the legacy left by with Parma, Sacchi has been his tactical innovations makes handpicked by Silvio Berlusconi, him known as one of the greatest who attempted to revolutionize manager in soccer history. Milan with new signings after

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 30 22/09/15 16:10 MEMOIR 200 pages September 2015

Armin Zöggeler Ghiaccio acciaio anima Ice Steel Soul “My toy store was the forest”

The perfect body, tough-looking, his work in the woods, his ARMIN ZÖGGELER (born in 1974 in with an invincible reputation, downhill trek to go to school, and Meran) is now a retired luger. Armin Zöggeler was nicknamed his fights with bullies. Then his At the Winter Olympics, he won “the Iceblood Champion” for his discovery of love, complicity, and six medals in the same individual always cold, rational approach rebellion, the sleepless nights to competition in six consecutive to the races, after he entered steal a few thousands of a second Olympics, the first to do so. the imagination of Italians with on a sleigh, and an aging body. his gold win at the 2006 Winter Nothing can be left to chance Olympics in Turin. He is an when travelling at 140km/h down untarnished hero. An athlete who ice. does not betray emotions. But he has overcome, cried, been afraid, been in trouble, he has faught, he has prayed. And that is why he has never liked the nickname: it does not respect his humanity. One year after his sixth gold medal in six Olympics, the greatest luger ever tells his story: from his childhood on the farm,

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 31 22/09/15 16:10 YA NOVEL 184 pages January 2015

Antonio Dikele Distefano Fuori piove. Dentro pure. Passo a prenderti? It’s Raining Outside. It’s Raining Inside. Can I Pick You Up? A fresh and original new voice

“Forgive me if you’ve seen the family, his friends, school, and ANTONIO DIKELE DISTEFANO is 22 worst of me, if I’ve been boring, the millions of other tribulations years old and was born in Italy to if I make you cry in front of your of being a teen: dating, love, Angolan parents. friends while I’m across town, if moments of growth… I let you cross the street alone, The story of a young man told Rights sold in Spain/Montena if I said, “me too” when you in pieces, from one scene to and Greece/Patakis. said, “I love you,” when it would the next. There are pages heavy have been better to say, “I love with emotion, and unforgettable you even more than yesterday”. sentences that will break your Forgive me if I’m not the man heart and doubtlessly be passed your mother would approve of, if along. It is a story of singular my gifts were predictable.” moments, like separate songs This is the story of a first love and that, put together, become the a first ending of love. A love story soundtrack to life. that lasted a year, and was hated by everyone all the while. Why? Because Antonio is black, and his girlfriend’s family dislikes him for it. And then there are his concerns over his own

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 32 22/09/15 16:10 INSPIRATIONAL 148 pages February 2015

Massimo Bisotti Foto/grammi dell’anima Film Frames from the Soul “Always remember the most important thing: stay true to your heart!”

Bisotti’s previous book Il quadro and vital aspects of ourselves. MASSIMO BISOTTI was born and mai dipinto, an inspirational He writes the path to lives in Rome. He studied novel, enchanted his readers acknowledgement and acceptance, literature, plays the piano, and with his magical and poetical teaching us to experience is passionate about psychology. prose, made of raw emotions and emotions fully, and to accept our “I started writing so that my powerful illuminations and sold imperfections rather than falling words could heal wounds and be 80,000 copies so far. Bisotti’s prey to the fear of failure. transformed in scars.” new book reads like a collection The new book by a cult author His first n ovel Il quadro mai of contemporary fairy tales, whose commercial success is dipinto will soon be translated in somewhere between Aesop’s driven by his enthusiastic Spain by Planeta and in Brasil by Fables and The Little Prince. readers’ word-of-mouth. Bertrand. It hides a small miracle within its pages: the author’s ability to dig into his heart and touch the reader’s, bringing bare souls together. In his new book Bisotti is once again a voice of inspiration, inviting us to abandon prejudices and recognize the most authentic

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 33 22/09/15 16:10 YA NOVEL 400 pages October 2015

Luca Enoch Il risveglio del Potente The Awakening of the Mighty A Lord of Dragons is born! A new magical adventure from the Dragonero universe

The second volume in the series ready to follow their lord’s every LUCA ENOCH, together with Dragonero, the novelization of the command. STEFANO VIETTI has created the highly successful comic series. And so begins a voyage out of fantasy comic Dragonero, a A novice wizard is given an Frondar to the lands of Orlo runaway hit with fifty thousand important mission: deliver a del Mondo, crossing the desert copies translated in several young dragon to the Storm Belt, of Vhâcondàr, and the Middle countries, including the United an insourmountable barrier that Kingdoms of rich and exotic States. Dragonero has been separates the known world sultans, and the length of the published monthly since 2013. from the Hidden World, where Green Forest, a land of talking In 2014 Mondadori published thousands of years ago the Great trees. the series’ first volume, titled La Dragons had settled after leaving maledizione di Thule. Frondar, in the Dragonero land of Impero. There are many out there who would like to get their hands on the baby dragon for its powers as a Potente, one of most sentient dragons ever to live. Controlling him would mean having power over an entire army of dragons

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 34 22/09/15 16:10 YA NOVEL 312 pages June 2015

Xharryslaugh Gray Gray Love has just one direction

A fan fiction turned into a If only for a moment. Or maybe XHARRYSLAUGH comes from passionate YA novel. longer. Tuscany and began writing in Gray is a love story that is young Gray is a true publishing success school. First came short personal and refreshing, like its fifteen that has already won the hearts of stories and then Gray, which year-old author who already has millions of young adults. combines her two big passions: hundreds of thousands of fans Born as fan fiction on the reading music and writing. who dream with her every word, platform Wattpad, it has totaled and play One Direction as the more than 5 million views of soundtrack to their lives. young readers who literally could For Harry and Heisel, it was love not stop reading this book. at first sight, but their story is not a smooth one. They are both messed up and crazy, a kind of borderline dysfunctional people like for real ... Which means they fight, they hurt, and they have misunderstandings until they finally drop all their barriers and let themselves fall into each other completely.

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 35 22/09/15 16:10 YA NOVEL 300 pages October 2015

Roberto Recchioni YA. La battaglia di Campocarne YA. The Battle of Campocarne The narrative debut of the favourite cult Italian comic book writer

The first volume in an eagerly fierce baptism by fire in which ROBERTO RECCHIONI is a star in awaited trilogy, which marks the Stecco will learn that the trail to the world of comics, and is narrative debut of a cult Italian adventure is paved by pain and currently the editor of the series comic book writer. suffering. For the birth of an “Dylan Dog”. He is the author of Granduomo, the Hood, and adventurer begins with the death several books including Mater Grandma Cleaver are the of innocence. Morbi, Asso, Ammazzatine, Orfani, three legendary characters Ucciderò ancora Billy The Kid, and whose exploits have inspired Battaglia. generations of boys and girls. Among their admirers is Stecco, a young man without any particular skills or talents, who journeys to the famed Dorsoduro, the adventurer training camp run by his heroes. There, Stecco finds friends, comrades in arms, and a chance at love. Together, they begin training for the battle of Campocarne, a

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 36 22/09/15 16:10 YA NON FICTION 200 pages November 2015

Licia Troisi Dove va a fi nire il cielo Where Goes the Sky The starry sky, as explained by the queen of Italian fantasy

In this book Licia Troisi, the leads to more questions. It’s like LICIA TROISI (Rome, 1980), “le bestselling fantasy novelist, a game made especially for us, a nouveau Tolkien en jupon” is also steps away from her writing puzzle which we will never really an astrophysicist by boot. She desk to take us on a journey solve. The fun part is we can keep was just twenty when she wrote across the stars. She shares her playing forever. her first trilogy Cronache del passion for her other job, as an And I want to tell you all about it.” Mondo Emerso and in the years astrophysicist, and reveals the With simplicity and clarity Licia since its debut, she became the mysteries and secrets behind the Troisi offers everything you need “queen of Italian fantasy” and night sky. to know about the universe and wrote three additional series as “I first learned about astrophysics our place in the world. well, selling two millions copies when I was eleven through a in Italy and abroad. documentary on the life and work of Stephen Hawking. Among her foreign publisher: Twenty-three years later, when I go Heyne/Germany, Univers Poche/ out in the evening and look at the France, Rocco/Brasil, RBA and sky, I am still filled with wonder Destino/Spain, Dogan/Turkey, and awe. The starry sky never fails Tianjin Press/China, Videograf/ to fascinate us, it is imbued with Poland, Alma Littera/Lithuania, mystery; and the more we explore Open Rood/WEL, Fantastikos it, we find that every answer only Kosmos/Greece. 36 37

INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 37 22/09/15 16:10 NON FICTION 250 pages April 2015

Nicola Gratteri - Antonio Nicaso Oro bianco White Gold The big book about cocaine’s international trafficking

Up until the nineties, cocaine cocaine, going on a journey that NICOLA GRATTERI is the leading was the drug of the elite. Today it takes us from Colombia up to prosecutor in the fight against is the drug of the masses: there Calabria, showing step by step the ‘ndrangheta. ANTONIO NICASO are those who smoke it, and this business that enriches drug is one of the world’s leading those who sniff it. According traffickers, impoverishes and experts on the ’ndrangheta. Both to UNODC, the United Nations kills drug addicts, contaminates of them received threats. Gratteri Office for Drug Control and the banking system, and corrupts lives under police protection Crime Prevention, in 2012 there those with executive power. since 1989. Nicaso was forced to were 243 million people, aged Oro bianco is a book that rekindles leave Italy and lives in Canada between 15 and 64, who have hope that the global scourge can since 1990. They co-authored a used illegal drugs at least once. one day be eradicated. long list of essays. Of all the substances, cocaine was by far the most popular drug Among their foreign publishers: used, and it continues to be the RHM/Spain, La Martiniere/ the ’ndrangheta’s best-seller. France, Lebowski/Netherlands, Today, cocaine is a much safer Avliga/Bulgaria. investment than government bonds. In this book, Antonio Nicaso and Nicola Gratteri trace the large-scale trafficking of

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 38 22/09/15 16:10 SCIENCE 290 pages April 2015

Massimo Piattelli Palmarini Il nono giorno della creazione The Ninth Day of Creation The latest findings in genetics and neuroscience

“The secrets of life are already both an homage and a statement MASSIMO PIATTELLI PALMARINI known; only the details remain of purpose, Piattelli Palmarini (Rome, 1942) has taught at MIT, to be clarified, although that describes the new conceptual Harvard, the Collège de France is no easy task. I doubt you frameworks that dominate and the University of Bologna. He would find it interesting.” The the “ninth day”: the study of is Professor of Cognitive Science response Jacques Monod gave evolutionary developmental at the University of Arizona. He a young Piattelli Palmarini biology, of epigenetics, and is a contributor for TLS and the were symptomatic of the view of the microbiome, including “Corriere della Sera,” and is the scientists had about biology and the innovative technologies author of numerous essays. genetics in the early sixties: that have made their study everything seemed to have possible, ushering in the era of French translation rights sold been discovered. The world- personalized medicine. to Odile Jacob. renowned book, The Eighth Day An updated account of the latest of Creation, written by Horace frontiers of scientific research Freeland Judson, had masterfully to be read by anyone, moving described the extraordinary between specialized description discoveries made in the field and narrative. of molecular biology, including deciphering of the genetic code. In this book, using the title as

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 39 22/09/15 16:10 SELF-IMPROVEMENT 296 pages March 2015

Roberto Re Cambiare senza paura Change without Fear How to win in the face of changes in work, relationships and life

The world around us is evolving and forcing us to live in a kind of ROBERTO RE is the founder and so rapidly that it forces us to make inferno. president of HRD Training constant changes in schedules, Winning fear gives you the Group, a company specialized actions, attitudes, behaviors, possibility of entering a new in management training and habits, ways of thinking. In a paradise made of growth and behavioral and personal growth. rather short time these small and richness. He is the author of the bestsellers continuous changes transform This book will help you in finding Leader di te stesso (2004) and the way we live and who we are. a new direction in life. Smettila di incasinarti! (2006). The primary feeling one has in the face of the whirlwind of change is fear. Any change, in fact, determines the abandonment of something known in favor of something unknown, the deletion of a part of our past for the uncertainty of the future. This widespread feeling of fear often leads people to resist change, and results in fear guiding the choices we make

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 40 22/09/15 16:10 PARENTING 252 pages May 2015

Roberta Cavallo - Antonio Panarese Smettila di fare i capricci Stop the Tantrums Solving your child’s tantrums without screaming or scolding

Roberta Cavallo and Antonio school, finish their homework, ROBERTA CAVALLO - ANTONIO Panarese, parenting consultants get dressed, go to sleep, brush PANARESE together have published specialized in the early stages their teeth, wash their hands, the bestseller Smettila di reprimere of growth (0-21 years), were take a shower, not touch, clean tuo figlio, and Le sette idiozie sulla nicknamed the “Blue Angels of up ... crescita dei bambini. children” during their lecture All without making a fuss. series, The Formula for a Happy Rights sold to Esfera de los Upbringing. libros/Spain. Together they have instructed parents on the method of “natural growth”, and with this new book they address the every parent’s nightmare: temper tantrums. Overturning the many platitudes on the subject, they parents with new perspective and practical examples they can use to convince their children to do things like turn off the TV, eat everything on the plate, stop playing, go to

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 41 22/09/15 16:10 NON FICTION 180 pages May 2015

Mauro Biglino La Bibbia non parla di Dio The Bible is not about God A surprising comparison of the Old Testament and the Homeric texts

“The Bible does not speak of dozens of parallel and mirror MAURO BIGLINO (Turin, 1950) is a God. When it speaks of Yahweh, it passages from Homer, the writer and scholar of the history means an individual who is part Bible, and scientific documents of religions who specializes in the of a group of individuals called produced by biologists and translation of Paleo-Hebrew. He Elohim. These individuals have a geneticists in support of this translated the nineteen books of relationship with humanity, but a shocking hypothesis. the Bible for Edizioni San Paolo special relationship, in the sense and is the author of La Bibbia non that they fabricated it. Yahweh è un libro sacro and Il Dio alieno was one of them, one of the less della Bibbia. important ones.” The author has expressed this singular theory in the many essays he has written to date that have been bestsellers and discussed in conferences around the country. In this new book, he takes up his main thesis and strengthens it with an original and surprising addition: the presentation of

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 42 22/09/15 16:10 RELIGION 276 pages September 2015

Gianfranco Ravasi Le pietre di inciampo del Vangelo The Stumbling Blocks of the Gospel The darkest passages of the Gospels illustrated by a very authoritative biblical scholar

The 140 Gospel passages that At the vanguard is Cardinal GIANFRANCO RAVASI (born in Ravasi presents here will Ravasi, who interpretes the Lecco in 1942), archbishop of undoubtedly be shocking. For passages using the message of the Roman Catholic Church, example: “If anyone comes to me John the Evangelist. His Gospel is currently the President of and does not hate his own father preserves the memory of a brief the Papal Commission for the and mother and wife and children dialogue that seals the darkness Cultural Heitage, A Hebrew and and brothers and sisters, yes, and by introducing a ray of light. “So even his own life, he cannot be Jesus said to the Twelve, ‘Do you biblical scholar, he has written my disciple.” (Luke 14:26). Or: want to go away as well?’ Simon a great number of essays on the “Do not think that I have come to Peter answered him, ‘Lord, to subject of religion. bring peace to the earth. I have whom shall we go? You have the not come to bring peace, but a words of eternal life, and we Among his foreign publishers: sword.” (Matthew 10:34). have believed, and have come to Herder/Germany, Fleurus/ It is not only the Old Testament know, that you are the Holy One France, Verbo Divino/Spain, that has difficult and scandalous of God.’”(John 6.67 to 69). Saint Benedict Press/WEL, passages. Even the bright pages Jednosc/Poland, Dom Quixote/ of the Gospels contain lines that trip the critical reader as well Portugal. as those who join in Christ’s message with heart and mind.

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 43 22/09/15 16:10 HISTORICAL NON FICTION 192 pages September 2015

Paolo Cesaretti Le quattro mogli dell’imperatore The Emperor’s Four Wives The story of Leo VI from Byzanthium and of his court

882 a.C.: twelve beautiful virgins Eudokia and their newborn son PAOLO CESARETTI, a Byzantine are gathered at the Court Palace appeared to mark the end of any scholar, edited the Italian in Constantinople from Emperor hopes for Leo, who was being editions of various reference Basilio, who wants to choose undermined by his brother and works by Cyril Mango. He is the among them the wife for his son threatened by military rebellions author of Teodora (2001) and and successor Leo. The winner of in the provinces of East Asia. L’impero perduto (2006). this kind of “beauty contest” was He is finally given an heir (the Theophane Martinakia, who was future Emperor Constantine Among his foreign publisher: forced to marry the only 16 years VII Porphyrogenitus), out of Payot/France, Ariel/Spain, old Leo in a wedding arranged by wedlock, by the dark-eyed Patmos/Germany, Oceanida/ their parents for political reason. Zoe. Their belated wedding, Greece, The Vendome Press/ Theophane is the first of the four however, and thus the legitimacy USA, Alnari/Serbia. wives Leo married in succession of his heir, is opposed by the following an incredible sequence Archbishop of Constantinople. of losses. After Theophane’s A fascinating blend of historical death, he married the intelligent rigour and narrative charm. Zoe Zaoutzaina and then, when he became a widower for a second time, the beautiful Eudokia Baiane. However the death of

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 44 22/09/15 16:10 HISTORICAL NON FICTION 180 pages November 2015

Amedeo Feniello Napoli 1343: alle radici del male Naples 1343: the roots of evil The first evidence found showing the camorra existed in as early as 1343

1343: there is famine in Naples. through the traditional roads AMEDEO FENIELLO, a historian of After nightfall, a Genoese ship of ethnology, anthropology, the Middle Ages, is the author loaded with wheat is attacked sociology or even folklore for of several historical essays by members of two local clans the umpteenth time. Amedeo including Sotto il segno del leone who brutally kill several sailors Feniello takes a new route (Laterza, 2011), Dalle lacrime di and their captain. The attackers through a number of previously Sybilla (Laterza, 2013). He is a returned to the city, greeted by the unstudied elements and makes contributor to “La Lettura”, the cheers of their countrymen, and a unique observation: that these cultural supplement of “Corriere the blind eye of the authorities. “families” of Naples were in della Sera”. The Republic of Genoa presented power at the time of the birth of the Kingdom of Naples with the Angevin Kingdom of Naples - a formal protest against the one of the first European nation incident. But, in a historical states. They would have been document of great importance leaders of the new state, actively today, King Charles I of Anjou participating in the business of admitted he did not control his the royal family and serving as a own city, that the true rulers of new class of directors, officers, Naples were the “family.” and bureaucrats. The purpose of this book is not to retrace the birth of the Camorra

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 45 22/09/15 16:10 BIOGRAPHY 400 pages November 2015

Rachele Ferrario Margherita Sarfatti Margherita Sarfatti The biography of the queen of art in fascist Italy

Writer and journalist Margherita fascist model of femininity: she RACHELE FERRARIO, a historian Sarfatti was also the leading supported women’s emancipation, and contemporary art critic, female art critic in Europe: she women’s suffrage, free love, teaches at the Academy of Fine founded the “Novecento” group, and embodied the ideal of the Arts in Brera. He writes for the curated galleries, attended the “flapper.” “Corriere della Sera” and “Style.” studios of the major artists, Thanks to extensive documentary With Mondadori she published discussing their works and research, Rachele Ferrario Regina di quadri (2010) and Le buying them for herself. Her revives the temperament of a Signore dell’arte (2012). influence on Italian culture and free woman, who lived ahead art is incomparable. of her time and who influenced This detailed biography reveals the most powerful men in Italy, the story of a major player in among them Umberto Boccioni: history who, for too long, has their relationship is here remained in Mussolini’s shadow. explored more deeply than ever She was Mussolini’s lover, a before. socialist, and then a fascist; she was educated, rich, beautiful, and belonged to the international elite. Modern and feminist, Margherita did not align with the

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 46 22/09/15 16:10 CURRENT AFFAIRS 152 pages September 2015

Fiamma Nirenstein Il Califfo e l’Ayatollah The Caliph and the Ayatollah The West under siege, caught between the Caliph’s fanaticism and the Ayatollah’s expansionism

Is ISIS a danger to Europe? the West struggles to respond FIAMMA NIRENSTEIN, a journalist Why are the Sunnis and Shiites appropriately, invoking and writer, is a columnist and fighting each other so fiercely multiculturalism for fear of commentator for “Il Giornale”. if they are all Muslims? How accusations of Islamophobia, and She has written ten books, the reliable is Iran, whose leader ideological rejection of the use of most recent are: Israele siamo wants an atomic bomb at all force. noi (2007) and A Gerusalemme costs? Is the West aware of being (2012). caught between the Caliph’s fanaticism and the Ayatollah’s expansionism? And why do so many foreign fighters leave the comforts of an affluent but corrupt society for the “purity” of the Islamic State? Fiamma Nirenstein explains the reasons for the intra- Muslim conflict, anti-Western sentiments, and anti-Semitic hatred that animate both ISIS and Iran: a fury before which

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 47 22/09/15 16:10 PHILOSOPHY 250 pages September 2015

Stefano Zecchi Il lusso Luxury The eternal desire of lust and Beauty

We live in a society devoted to luxury, starting from primitive STEFANO ZECCHI teaches aesthetics profit and functionality, one that societies where it was a gift at the State University of Milan. A sees beauty in the ephemeral, and not possession, touching novelist, essayist, and columnist, and luxury in expense. But what in its path the great classical he has published many novels, is luxury? civilizations, the Renaissance and the essays, such as Sillabario Stefano Zecchi has a counter- (when “great art” became del nuovo millennio, Il brutto e response: luxury is the natural synonymous with majesty), the il bello, L’artista armato, Capire (and legitimate) aspiration to Enlightenment, Marxism, to l’arte, L’uomo è ciò che guarda, Le beauty which belongs to every the present day and the crisis promesse della bellezza. human being, and the desire to of the idea of beauty. Here, improve our existence by going Zecchi illustrates the parable beyond the everyday routine. of a “skilled craftsman” partly Luxury escapes any monetary supplanted by industry, leading sum. It is an experience of life, a to the birth of the brand. priceless value of the spirit (like And above all, he shows how righteousness, beauty, truth), luxury, dominating the meaning an aspiration to a life of beauty, of beauty, requires culture and removed from the ostentation of aesthetic sensibilities. power or money. Zecchi traces the concept of

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 48 22/09/15 16:10 PHILOSOPHY 120 pages October 2015

Giulio Giorello Il fantasma e il desiderio The Ghost and Desire A surprising book on ghosts

In this book, philospher desire to desire. GIULIO GIORELLO (Milan, 1945) Giulio Giorello gathers five And so ghost are dreams made of is curently a professor of philosophical short stories, the fabric of our wishes. Philosophy of Science at the some set in the foggy Northern And yet these immaterial University of Milan and is a countries and some set under the entities, though perhaps unreal, frequent contributor to “Corriere Mediterranean sun. remind us that on this Earth della Sera”. He is the author The reader will be brought to there exists far more than what of a long list of essays, widely know the existence of ghosts, philosophy can conceive. translated abroad. lares, unbodied souls, and messengers from hell. Some are perverse and deceitful, some are playful jokers, and yet all these spirits wish they weren’t dead. Our deep envy of their living is what creates the energy by which we recognize them. They are diaphanous creatures, intolerant of good sense or political correctness. But those emotions are what help us persist in our

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 49 22/09/15 16:10 COOKING/HEALTH 298 pages October 2015

Marco Bianchi La mia cucina italiana My Italian Cook-book The Italian tradition’s recipes re-interpreted with a healthy and tasty twist

In the 1950s, American biologist South). Other dishes have been MARCO BIANCHI (Milan, 1978) and nutritionist, Ancel Keys, re-interpreted to enhance their is a nutritionist and a science was struck by the low incidence potential health benefits. journalist. He is a chef by passion of cardiovascular disease and Our lifestyle has changed over and author of a long list of gastrointestinal disorders in the years. Compared to our bestselling titles, the latest ones Italy and Greece. He discovered grandparents, we lead a more of which are Io mi muovo (2014) that the Mediterranean is the sedentary lifestyle; we move less and Io mi voglio bene (2015). body’s natural ally against and have different nutritional His blog www.marcoincucina.it disease. Today, Marco Bianchi is needs than we had in the past. reach more than 200 thousand taking the traditional recipes of So why haven’t we modernized users a week. the regions and boosting their the way we eat? This question is nutritional value even more. what started this journey through This book is a culinary portrait traditional cooking. Now the best of Italy’s 20 regions with 200 cuisine in the world is also the recipes. Some dishes are already healthiest. perfectly balanced in their original version (the soups from the North, cereals and beans from the inland, and not to mention the durum wheat pasta from the

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 50 22/09/15 16:10 NON FICTION 152 pages November 2015

Luciano De Crescenzo Te voglio bene assaje Te voglio bene assaje A short history of Neapolitan music

The Neapolitan export known is presented thanks to the LUCIANO DE CRESCENZO (Naples, around the world, aside from practiced and passionate ear of 1928) worked as an IBM engineer pizza, is its music. Luciano De Crescenzo, the most for over twenty years and in 1977 The musicians from the South famous expert on Neapolitan debuted with his first book Così have written magnificent arias popular culture. parlò Bellavista. Since then he capable of touching the heart and has published over thirty books, reviving a smile. which have been translated in 19 The poets and storytellers languages in which he managed matched the right words for every very successfully to make occasion: those of celebration “philosophy with Neapolitan in Funiculì funiculà (composed humour” accessible to everybody. for the inauguration of the first funicular town) and those of love lost in Era de maggio. Then those of Malafemmina, Tammurriata nera, ’O surdato ’nnamurato. Songs so beautiful, they have taken root like evergreens in the world of music. This vast and prestigious playlist

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 51 22/09/15 16:10 ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT 144 pages November 2015

Stefano Bollani Parliamo di musicisti Let’s talk about Musicians Stefano Bollani’s favorites playlist

Stefano Bollani is a great that serves as an enlightening STEFANO BOLLANI (Milan, 1972) performer but also a very lively listening guide. made his debut at the age of character in the world of music. An entertaining and enlightening fifteen. Since then he has He likes jazz, classical, rock, way to tell us of the beauty of the recorded hundreds of records ancient and experimental music. and performed concerts music... This time, in the worldwide, from the Town Hall wake of the great success of in New York to la Scala in Milan. his previous book, Parliamo di in 2013 Mondadori published musica, the great pianist opens Parliamo di musica. up and reveals his thoughts on his colleagues, his heros, and his past and present obsessions. From Renato Carosone to Bill Evans, from Frank Zappa to Maurice Ravel, from Gorni Kramer to João Gilberto, from Billie Holiday to Elis Regina, this book is a journey into a personal and amazing musical pantheon, a magnificent history of music

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 52 22/09/15 16:10 ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT 220 pages October 2015

Massimo Cotto Su me stesso non ho mai scritto niente I never wrote a word about me Paolo Conte through his words

Paolo Conte never wanted to statements, lightning strikes and MASSIMO COTTO is a renowned define nor reveal himself. He deep reflections, which he has journalist specialized in music has always said that one of the dismantled and reassembled like and the author of a long list of privileges of the artist is to keep a Dadaist poem. Italian stars’ biographies. searching, hoping to never arrive What emerges is a giant fresco PAOLO CONTE is an Italian at an ultimate goal, because then of a unique artist. Accompanied legendary singer-songwriter it wouldn’t make sense to keep by the diary of a journey that the often compared to Jacques Brel, searching. two have made to America during Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen. That’s why he never wanted to Conte’s first visit to the USA. write a book. But he has given glimpses of himself in his songs and in interviews, where he offers priceless views and remnants of a lost time. This book, edited by Massimo Cotto, who was born in the same home town of Asti where the sun is in your face and the rain is on your back, gathers years of Paolo Conte’s sentences and

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 53 22/09/15 16:10 CURRENT AFFAIRS 288 pages September 2015

Federico Rampini L’età del caos The Age of Chaos A trip through the world’s disorder

We are in a period of great the new elite, the main players FEDERICO RAMPINI, after years instability in which the old order in the coming decades: guerillas in Beijing, is currently the New is crumbling and a new order and tech start-ups who, for York correspondent for the daily is nowhere to be found. This varying reasons, see opportunity “la Repubblica”. He has taught in book describes the fault lines in instability. So much so that the universities of Berkeley and running through our world and ‘disruptive’ has become the Shanghai. This is the ninth book the forces that are reshaping it, buzzword of Silicon Valley. published with Mondadori. from geopolitics to economics, It is no wonder then, that for the from the environment to the young and creative, chaos has His foreign publishers include collapse of democracies, from become a promise of unlimited Laffont/France, Presença/ the technological revolution to possibilities. Why focus on the Portugal and Dokoran/Czech the role of emerging powers, downside? Republic. particularly India and Cina. Chaos is seductive as a dynamic principle and a strategic resource. On the one hand there are rulers hopelessly rooted in the past and unable to see the future. On the other hand are the members of

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 54 22/09/15 16:10 NONFICTION 444 pages November 2015

Bruno Vespa Donne al potere Women in Power The women who made and make the history of Italy

In this new book, Italian history Gae Aulenti to Sofia Loren. BRUNO VESPA was born in 1944 is retraced following the line of These pages show that in spite in L’Aquila. Since 1996, his TV women who have made Italy great of a largely male-centric culture, program “Porta a Porta” has and helped improve its image women have never been too far been the most watched show on worldwide. We follow women from the control room. And politics and current events. With in politics, the arts, medicine, when they have made it there, Mondadori he has published a science, as well as entrepreneurs, they have always done so with long list of important essays - all and women dedicated to welfare. great competence and extreme highly bestselling - giving his This study lead Vespa across discretion. many readers a chance to better history, from Cornelia, the understand contemporary Italy’s mother of the Gracchi brothers, delicate political and financial through the Unification, situation. and to the modern day: from Emma Bonino to Rita Levi- Montalcini, from Margherita Hack to Samantha Cristoforetti, from Maria Montessori to Lina Merlin, from Miuccia Prada to Marina Berlusconi, from Grazia Deledda to Oriana Fallaci, from

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INT_franko_2015_ok.indd 55 22/09/15 16:10 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

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